GENERAL EMPLOYMENT AND WORKPLACE ISSUES
Ethics and Integrity
Colby Community College is committed to operating in furtherance of its tax-exempt purposes and in compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations, including those concerning accounting and auditing, and prohibits fraudulent practices by any of its board members, officers, employees, or volunteers. This policy outlines a procedure for employees to report actions that an employee reasonably believes violates a law, or regulation or that constitutes fraudulent accounting or other practices. This policy applies to any matter that is related to Colby Community College’s business and does not relate to private acts of an individual unconnected to the business of Colby Community College.
If an employee has a reasonable belief that an employee or Colby Community College has engaged in any action that violates any applicable law, or regulation, including those concerning accounting and auditing, or constitutes a fraudulent practice, the employee is expected to immediately report such information to their immediate supervisor. If the employee does not feel comfortable reporting the information to their immediate supervisor, he or she is expected to report the information to the HR Department of the College. Failure to report this type of information could result in negative or adverse sanctions including termination of the employee.
All reports will be followed up promptly, and an investigation conducted. In conducting its investigations, Colby Community College will strive to keep the identity of the complaining individual as confidential as possible, while conducting an adequate review and investigation.
Colby Community College will not retaliate against an employee in the terms and conditions of employment because that employee: (a) reports to a supervisor, to the executive director, the Board of Directors or to a federal, state or local agency what the employee believes in good faith to be a violation of the law; or (b) participates in good faith in any resulting investigation or proceeding, or (c) exercises his or her rights under any state or federal law(s) or regulation(s) to pursue a claim or take legal action to protect the employee’s rights.
Colby Community College may take disciplinary action (up to and including termination) against an employee who in management’s assessment has engaged in retaliatory conduct in violation of this policy.
[In addition, Colby Community College will not, with the intent to retaliate, take action harmful to an employee who has provided to law enforcement personnel or a court truthful information relating to the commission or possible commission by Colby Community College or any of its employees of a violation of any applicable law or regulation.]
Supervisors will be trained on this policy and Colby Community College’s prohibition against retaliation in accordance with this policy.
[Added November 2016][Reviewed December 2020]
- Audit and Inventory Control
- Authorization to Purchase (Bidding Policy)
- Authorization to Sign Contracts and Agreements
- Authorized Signers
- Billing and Payment
- Bonds
- Budget
- Cash Management
- Check Signing
- College Ownership and Use
- College Seal
- Competing Business Interests
- Compliance of Federal Funds
- Credit Card Usage
- Debt Management
- Disposition of Surplus Property
- Expenditures And Fiscal Control
- Facilities and Naming Guidelines
- Federal Funding
- Financial Compliance
- Financial Responsibility Agreement
- Gift Acknowledgement
- Gramm – Leach – Bliley Act (GLBA)
- Grants and Other Outside Financial Resources
- Indirect Rates
- Investment of Funds
- Petty Cash and Change Funds
- Prior Year Charges
- Records Retention
- Refunds
- Rental of Facilities
- Return of Title IV Funds
- Returned Checks
- Sale of Livestock
- Sales and Advertising On Campus
- Scholarships (Internal)
- Scholarships (Performance-Based)
- Small Balance Write-Off
- Stop Payment
- Supplanting
- Tuition Assistance
- Uncollectable Debt Write-Off
- Use of College Equipment
- Vehicle Fleet
- Academic Council
- Administrative Organization
- Authorized Signers
- Board Discretion
- Board of Trustees Meetings
- Board of Trustees
- Categories of Personnel
- Check Signing
- Debt Management
- Facilities and Naming Guidelines
- Financial Compliance
- Merger or Consolidation
- Organizational Structure
- Preceptorship Agreements
- President
- Reserve Funds
- Selection of Administrators
- Transcript Withholding
- Uncollectable Debt Write-Off
- Website User Privacy
- Accreditation
- Accrediting Bodies
- Alcohol/Drug-Free Workplace and Drug-Free Awareness Program
- Child Abuse Prevention
- Copyright Infringement
- Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990
- Degrees and Certificates
- Employment
- Essential Skills and Outcomes
- Ethics and Integrity
- FERPA
- Harassment
- HIPAA
- Mission Statement
- Notice of Non-Discrimination
- Open Records Requests
- Philosophy
- Publication and Logo Use
- Purposes
- Vision
- Academic Integrity
- Academic Load
- Accessibility
- Administrative Drop
- Bicycles and Other Mobile Devices
- Billing and Payment
- Code of Conduct
- Copyright Infringement
- Credit Hour Definition
- Crowd Control at College Sponsored Activities
- Dorm Credit Hour Requirement
- Emotional Support and Service Animals
- Fairness in Women's Sports Act
- Financial Responsibility Agreement
- File a Complaint
- Grade Appeal
- Indigenous Student Tuition
- International Students and the Law
- Interrogations and Investigations
- Parking
- Placement Testing
- Prior Year Charges
- Proctoring
- Refunds
- Satisfactory Academic Progress (Academics)
- Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP)
- Scholarships
- Small Balance Write-Off
- Student-Athlete Drug Policy
- Student Complaint Guidelines
- Students with Disabilities
- Transcript Withholding
- Undocumented Immigrants
- Weapons
- Work Study and General Work Time
Human Resources
1255 S Range Ave
Colby KS 67701
hr@colbycc.edu
(785) 460-5406