Institutional Compliance and Integrity

Institutional Compliance and Integrity supports the University’s efforts by promoting and guiding an academic and working environment that reflects the University’s commitment to maintaining the highest level of integrity and ethical standards in the conduct of operations. Our department oversees and provides strategic guidance and training to mitigate potential operational and strategic risks and to promote a University wide culture of compliance and accountability through high standards of ethics, integrity, and responsibility within the University. These efforts enable us to ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations and policies, while advancing the University’s strategic objectives.

For more information please email compliance@pittstate.edu or stop by Russ Hall 213.

If you have a compliance or ethics concern to report, please visit the Compliance & Ethics Reporting Policy page. You may anonymously report the concern by calling the Compliance & Ethics Hotline 844-410-0003 or reporting the concern online.

Mission

To serve and safeguard our University community from the regulatory risks we face and promote a cultural environment of high ethical standards by:

• Identifying compliance risk faced by the University community.
• Promoting an awareness of compliance risks and the objectives of our compliance activities through communicating with and educating the University community.
• Developing innovative and effective ways to mitigate compliance risk through collaboration with the University community.

Responsibilities

Institutional Compliance and Integrity is responsible for designing, implementing, and monitoring the University system-wide compliance program.

The office's primary responsibilities include the following:

• Develop and implement the University compliance risk assessment process.
• Assist the campus compliance committees in their various duties.
• Help functionally responsible offices overcome barries to compliance by recommending improved controls or providing independent services such as communicating the need for new procedures, resources, or stronger enforcement or working as a liasion between multiple parties.
• Independently investigate and act on matters related to compliance.
• Collaborate with the University community to develop innovative and effective ways to mitigate compliance risk.
• Promote a University wide culture of compliance and accountability through high standards of ethics, integrity, and responsibility within the University.
• Promote the Compliance & Ethics Hotline.