Our Mission
To reinforce and support a culture that builds compliance consciousness into our daily
activities and operations. UNT Dallas encourages each employee to conduct official
university business with the highest standards of honesty and integrity.
Compliance and Integrity is an independent arm of management establishing a program
that clearly demonstrates UNT Dallas' total commitment to the highest standards of
ethics and compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements by its faculty,
staff, and students.
What is Compliance and Integrity?
Compliance and Integrity at the individual employee level is knowing and doing what
is right in conducting UNT Dallas business. At the university level, it is applying
sound management practices in conducting university business to achieve our organizational
goals and objectives, while maintaining the highest standards of ethics and compliance.
Compliance and Integrity are accurately identifying risks and ensuring that UNT Dallas
resources are allocated in a manner that provides reasonable assurance to executive
management that the university's most damaging risks are adequately controlled.
Program Objectives
- Promoting compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements, policies and procedures.
- Ensuring the program is risk-based and considers all aspects of the university's operations.
- Ensuring the program includes effective monitoring that prevents accidental or intentional
noncompliance with applicable laws and regulatory requirements; detecting such noncompliance;
when it occurs, ensuring that the noncompliant behavior is appropriately addressed;
and preventing future noncompliance.
- Providing leadership to appropriately address any campus-wide compliance concerns,
issues, and challenges.
- Facilitating ethical conduct.
- Educating as necessary and providing guidance to faculty and staff.
Principle Functions
- Assisting in identifying and evaluating the university’s highest compliance risks.
- Assessing and monitoring the effectiveness of pre-existing internal controls.
- Establishing when absent and/or revising inadequate pre-existing internal controls.
- Reporting instances of non-compliance.
- Following up on all reported instances of non-compliance to ensure management has
taken appropriate corrective action.
- Management and resolution of complaints or concerns received via the applicable Trust
Line, chain-of-command, or by direct communication.
Compliance and Integrity Monitoring Includes:
- A comprehensive effort.
- A commitment towards compliance with applicable laws, regulations, policies and procedures.
- Working directly with management to monitor the highest-university risks on a quarterly
basis.
- Coordinating with campus management to ensure that lower-level risks are appropriately
managed.
UNT System Values
Courageous Integrity | Be Curious | We Care | Better Together | Show Your Fire