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.