Admissions Ethics: Following NACAC's Code of Ethics and Professional Practices, Exams of Ethics

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Admissions Ethics

Designed based on the NACAC’s Code of Ethics & Professional Practices; read the full code here. Offered by Veronica McClellan: July 2020

NACAC Preamble

Excerpt:

Our profession strives to ensure that the students we

serve and all of our colleagues are valued and

supported.

We thrive by embracing and engaging our unique

identities, experiences, and perspectives, and we are

committed to increasing the enrollment and success

of historically underrepresented populations.

We are dedicated to promoting college access and

addressing systemic inequities to ensure that college

campuses reflect our society’s many cultures,

stimulate the exchange of ideas, value differences, and

prepare our students to become global citizens and

leaders.

We will avoid

and report

conflicts of

interest.

• We cannot offer personal resources to applicants. We cannot extend privileges to an applicant that are not also publicly available to all other applicants. We will report conflicts of interest (our own and others) to the Director of Admissions. This includes offering your own home as lodging, submitting a recommendation for an applicant to the CoM- especially for your own studio, offering audition reviews and/or scholarship recommendations for friends/family, etc.
• We cannot accept payment for lessons with prospective students/applicants without also disclosing the interaction to the Director of Admissions and Recruitment.
• Excerpt from NACAC Code of Ethics and Professional Practices (Section 1. B)
  • Advocating for the best interests of students in the admission process is the primary ethical concern of our profession. This requires that students receive college admission counseling that they can trust. Members will therefore adhere to high standards of individual and institutional professional conduct. Conflicts of interest, whether real or perceived, and unprofessional conduct undermine that trust.
  • To avoid conflicts of interest and the appearance of unethical behavior, members will: a. not be compensated by commissions, bonuses, or other incentive payments based on the number of students referred, recruited, admitted, or enrolled…
  • Conflict of interest: A situation that has the potential to undermine the impartiality of a person because of a clash between the person’s self- interest and professional interest or public interests. Conflicts of interest in admission and counseling may often be prohibited by employers, by professional organizations, by government regulations, and by accreditation agencies. (Section 3, page 11)

We will not ask for information that isn’t ours to request.

• We cannot use a students interest level or college list ranking to determine a scholarship award offering. Rather, we will solely rely on the student’s application, interview score, and audition performance when determining if a student is to be awarded and scholarship and the extent of that award.
• We cannot use our professional connections to gain private insight to a student’s application list, personal ranking of campuses, or interest level in attending CU Boulder. Nor, can we ask the candidate to divulge such information.
• Excerpt from NACAC Code of Ethics and Professional Practices (Section 1. C)
  • College members will not ask candidates, their counselors, their schools, or others to divulge or rank order their college preferences on applications or other documents. They may ask the question verbally only if the answer will not be used to influence an admission, scholarship, or financial aid decision.

We will close the loop with waitlisted students.

• We will not ask students to share their level of interest in enrolling at CU nor will we allow August 1 to pass without also admitting or releasing students from our waitlist. **I do recommend closing the loop with waitlisted students no later than May 15th
  1. You’re not likely to yield them in late summer anyway
  2. this allows them to make more ideal housing arrangements here or wherever they end up going
  3. The students have more information to decide where to commit earlier in the cycle.
• Excerpt from NACAC Code of Ethics and Professional Practices (Section 2. C)
  • Colleges may ask students who have accepted a place on the wait list to indicate their level of interest, but must not ask them to rank order or identify their other college choices.
  • Until May 1, students who are offered admission from a wait list must be given at least through May 1, or 48 hours, whichever is longer, to accept the offer. This applies both to informal offers (such as requests for verbal commitments) as well as to official offers of admission. It is understood that before a deposit or other final commitment is required, students must be notified of the availability of housing and those whose financial aid application is complete must have received their financial aid award package.
  • After May 1, students who are offered admission from a wait list may be asked to commit verbally within 48 hours of the offer. Colleges may set their own deadlines for submitting enrollment deposits after students have verbally committed. It is understood that before a deposit or other final commitment is required, students must be notified of the availability of housing and those whose financial aid application is complete must have received their financial aid award package.
  • Candidates who remain on a wait list for fall admission must be notified of a final admission decision no later than August 1.

We will be

transparent

with transfer

students.

• We will not require transfer students to accept our offer of admission

without also sharing which credits will transfer and how they facilitate

or don’t facilitate progress on a degree.

• Excerpt from NACAC Code of Ethics and Professional Practices (Section

2. D)

• Fairness and transparency require that transfer candidates not

be asked to make a commitment to enroll until they are able to

review their financial aid award and an estimate of how many

credits already earned will transfer and advance them toward a

degree at the receiving institution.

• Before transfer candidates are required to submit an enrollment

deposit or other commitment to enroll, colleges will provide

them with: a. an evaluation of their prior college-level credits

that is a good faith estimate of how those credits will be applied

toward their graduation requirements. An online articulated

transfer agreement will meet this requirement. b. a financial aid

award notification, as long as they have submitted all requested

application forms and supporting materials by the designated

deadline. c. either a deposit deadline extension or, upon

request, an enrollment deposit refund, if colleges cannot

provide credit evaluations or aid notification and the student

decides not to enroll.

Submitting a formal complaint NACAC encourages members to submit a complaint whenever they believe that a violation of NACAC’s Code of Ethics and Professional Practices has occurred. Nonmembers—including parents and students—are also encouraged to submit complaints. Complaints may be submitted directly to NACAC via its online Confidential Complaint Form or to the national or affiliate Admission Practices (AP) Committees. All complaints are investigated in the strictest confidence. It is understood that AP Committee members will recuse themselves whenever there is a conflict of interest with either the Complainant or the subject of a complaint.