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UA System Office Compliance Training
UA System Office employees are required to complete annual compliance training on a range of topics. Training requirements will be communicated to employees via email, and assignments will be administered through the isolved platform.
Annual training is assigned to existing employees each August. New employees are required to complete assigned compliance trainings within 30 days of hire.
Institutional Compliance Training
Each UA System institution manages compliance training for their organization. For information about their specific program requirements, see:
Questions?
For assistance or to schedule training, please contact Dr. Marcy Huey,
Conflict of Interest Training
A conflict of interest may exist when a decision you make or an action you take in your University position results in a real or perceived benefit to you, your family, or you or your family’s business.
Both the Alabama Ethics Law and òݳ Board Rules set out rules to govern and manage potential conflicts of interest.
For more information, please see:
- Board Rules 106 and 106.2
òݳ Office of Risk and Compliance offers support and training for University and System Senior Administrators, Managers, and Employees on how to identify, avoid, and manage real or perceived conflicts of interest. For assistance or to schedule training, please contact Dr. Marcy Huey,
Annually, the UA System Office of Risk and Compliance requests COI Disclosure forms from defined system and campus leadership, in accordance with Board Rules 106 and 106.2. Go here to submit a COI Disclosure Form:
Questions?
- For questions about Ethics policies, please visit UA System Ethics Support.
- For questions regarding the Alabama Ethics Law, visit the or call them at (334) 242-2997.
- For questions regarding Board Rule 106 or 106.2, please contact Dr. Marcy Huey,
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Compliance Training Course Requirements/Baseline Standards May 2025
In collaboration with all the system entities, the UA System Office of Risk and Compliance offers these baseline standards for all required compliance training courses. These standards do not apply to voluntary courses or to courses that are not related to compliance requirements, but can be considered guidance for course development, if appropriate.
- All training content should have a responsible subject matter expert (SME) who identifies and approves training needs and necessary content.
- All training content should meet current digital accessibility standards.
- This includes the course itself and any supplemental materials that are provided.
- All SME should consider alternate methods for delivery and have a plan for addressing exemptions requests, equivalencies, and alternate accommodation needs. This should be coordinated through appropriate SME.
- All courses should include contact information and instructions for how to ask questions or get additional information.
- All courses should have information on how to report non-compliance. This should include the relevant office, supervisors/leadership, and/or the compliance office.
- All courses should include information on reporting anonymously (or not) via the hotline.
- Ideally, courses should include a content summary that addresses the purpose and content of the course. For courses that might need increased sensitivity, when appropriate, the content summary should include awareness of potentially concerning or upsetting content.
- Example: This course covers x material and may include descriptions of y and z.
- For required compliance courses, completion should be tracked and reported on to appropriate leadership.
- The course content should be reviewed and updated before retraining. Ideally, the same course is not repeated. Retraining is intended to refresh or review core concepts, communicate regulatory or process changes, and address concerns raised by risk assessment or reports during the year, which should lead to new content annually.
- Course training should have a communication plan to alert involved individuals of their training obligations and to alert leadership of their training support responsibilities.
- SME should set metrics to measure effectiveness and to ensure that training accomplishes the intended goals and is not a “check the box” activity.
- All mandatory compliance training courses should be part of a larger training plan that addresses training needs/requirements, frequency, approvals, etc. This can include follow-up activities or communications to reinforce training material or to help embed knowledge.
- Compliance training courses should have some way to collect feedback about content and to allow the learner to make suggestions for content or delivery.