NACCAS 2012 SUPPLEMENTAL POLICY
CALL FOR COMMENT
comparison
of proposed changes
to
standards, criteria, rules, appendices and by-laws
General
Notes on Changes:
1.
More than one Proposal may relate
to the same provision of NACCAS’ Standards, Policies, Rules of Practice and
Procedure, Appendices, By-Laws or Glossary. Unless otherwise noted, all Proposals
relating to a given Standard, Policy, etc. are included in a comprehensive
mark-up of that provision.
2.
Language to be deleted is
overstruck (overstruck) and language to be added is in bold, underlined text.
3.
Proposals
adopted by Emergency Action precede Proposals not yet adopted by the
Commission.
4.
Any
Proposal adopted under emergency action is given a Proposal Number with an
“E”. The effective date for each
such Proposal is noted in the Call for Comment Survey
document.
Proposal 2012-SUPP-1E:
The Commission proposes to amend
Section 11.4 of NACCAS’ Rules of Practice and Procedure to permit NACCAS’
Executive Director to promptly notify the U.S. Department of education of the name of any accredited school
which NACCAS has reason to believe is failing to meet its Title IV, HEA program
responsibilities or is engaged in fraud or abuse. (The Proposal was adopted by
the Commission under emergency action and became effective May 24, 2012. The Proposal is presented for comment as
it remains subject to change by the Commission.)
Rationale: To conform to the requirements of
34 C.F.R. §602.27(a)(6). NACCAS has
been advised by the U.S. Department of Education that the previous version of
Section 11.4 did not permit the Commission to act with sufficient promptness to
meet the requirements of this regulation.
PROPOSED
REVISIONS
Section 11.4 Notification to Government
Entities
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NACCAS’ Executive Director shall
inform the United States Department of Education of the name of any institution
or program accredited by the agency with the Commission, upon review of the
team report and response, interim visit report, complaint and response to
complaint allegations or annual report information, which NACCAS has reason to
believe is failing to meet its Title IV, HEA program responsibilities or is
engaged in fraud or abuse and the reason for the Commission’s NACCAS’ concern.
Proposal 2012-SUPP-1:
The Commission proposes to amend
Articles V and VII of NACCAS’ By-Laws to provide that the Chair, Vice-Chairs,
Secretary and Treasurer of the Commission shall be elected at the last
Commission meeting of the year, and shall take office on the January 1
immediately following their election.
Rationale: Under the current By-Laws, new
Officers do not assume their offices until the first face-to-face meeting of the
Commission each year (typically, in February). If the prior holder of an Officer
position is no longer on the Commission, that position is empty for several
weeks. The Commission believes that
seating its Officers effective January 1 will eliminate such transition
problems.
PROPOSED
REVISIONS
SECTION I
The annual meeting of the
Commission shall be the first meeting of each calendar year at which
Commissioners are physically present. Two-thirds of the Commission shall
constitute a quorum at the Annual Meeting or any prescribed Commission meeting
under Section
II (below).
The agenda of the annual meeting
of the Commission shall include the election of the new Chair and the
Officers, receipt of the annual report of the immediate past Commission
Chair, Officers and Committees, and the transaction of all other business. The
date and place of the annual meeting shall be fixed by the Commission. Notice of
such meeting, stating the date, place and time of the meeting, signed by the
Secretary, shall be mailed to the last recorded address of each Commissioner at
least thirty (30) days before the time appointed for the
meeting.
SECTION II
The Chair, Vice-Chairs, Secretary
and Treasurer shall be elected by the Commission from the members of the
Commission, and will have served at least one year on the
Commission by the time they take office. The officers shall serve
a one-year term commencing January 1
of the calendar year immediately following at the
conclusion
of the meeting at
which they are elected. Any officer may serve more than one term.
The election of officers shall be
by secret written ballot of Commissioners physically present at the meeting
at which the elections are held. conducted by secret ballot of
Commissioners in attendance at the meeting at which the elections are held. In the event that such meeting is by
teleconference or other means by which Commissioners may attend without being
physically present, the vote shall be conducted by a method (electronic or
otherwise) that has been approved in advance of the meeting by vote of the
Commission and that (1) permits the casting of secret ballots whose authenticity
can be verified, (2) permits nominations from the floor, and (3) permits the
vote to be calculated by the chair of the Nominating Committee, independently
confirmed by the Executive Director (or, in the absence of the Executive
Director, by another person selected by the Chair) and announced at the meeting
at which the vote takes place.
Voting by proxy shall not be allowed. The candidate with the majority of
the votes cast shall be declared the winner in each election.
Ballots shall be pre-printed with
the slate proposed by the Nominating Committee. Any nominations from the floor
shall be written in by a person designated by the chair of the Nominating
Committee. Each Commissioner shall
receive a ballot for the position to deposit in a receptacle designated by the
chair of the Nominating Committee.
The chair of the Nominating
Committee shall read the ballots in front of the Commission to be confirmed by
the candidates for the position. The winner shall be announced by
the chair of the Nominating Committee. Ballots shall be available until the
count is confirmed, then destroyed.
SECTION V - Election of
Officers
A.
Prior to the annual
meeting final meeting of
the Commission in each calendar year, the Chair of the Commission shall
appoint a nominating committee of three (3) Commissioners, to be known as the
Officer Nominating Committee.
The Officer
Nominating Committee shall prepare a slate of only one candidate for each
officer position to present at the annual
final Commission meeting in any calendar year. Any
committee member who places his/her name under consideration for an officer
position must promptly resign from the Officer Nominating Committee and
the Chair of the Commission shall appoint a replacement.
At the
meeting at which officers are elected, nominations may be made from the
floor.
B.
Officers shall be elected by a
majority vote of the Commission members physically present in attendance and voting. Any
tie shall be put to a re-vote. If this second vote results in a tie, it shall be
broken by the vote of the Commissioner chairing the election. This in no way
limits the right of the Chair to vote for officers.
C.
The officers of the Commission
shall hold office for one calendar year or until their successors are chosen and
qualify. Any officer or agent, elected or appointed by the Commission, may be
removed by the Commission whenever, in its judgment, the best interests of the
Commission will be served thereby, but such removal shall be without prejudice
to the contract rights, if any, of the person so removed. Any vacancy occurring
in any office of the Commission by death, resignation, removal, or otherwise
shall be filled by the Commission.