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Herbst New Employee Essentials page 4

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New Employee Essentials | Page 4: Policies for Support Positions

Conflict of Interest

The Herbst Academic Center is an educational and professional organization dedicated to the academic achievement of student-athletes.  As a tutor, you are an integral part of the academic process.  Tutors are responsible for providing assistance to student-athletes in designated areas of expertise.  To maintain professionalism and achieve academic development, the relationship between the tutor and the student-athlete whom you tutor must remain a tutorial relationship only (i.e. dating a student-athlete whom you tutor is not permitted).  Tutors are expected to uphold the utmost professionalism when dealing with student-athletes.  Tutors who are teaching assistants for a course and serve in a grading capacity may not tutor a student-athlete in that course during that semester.

Communication Policy, Confidentiality and FERPA

The law holds members of the Herbst Academic Center to standards of confidentiality. Any academic information that is disclosed by a student-athlete is considered confidential.  This includes disclosing information about student-athletes to coaches, other athletic staff, the press or any individual who is not associated with the athletics department.  The release of information is limited to the staff in the Herbst Academic Center only.  Tutors, as well as the remainder of the staff, are to abide by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA or the Buckley Amendment).  This Act deals directly with the protection of educational records of student-athletes.  For more information on FERPA please go to http://registrar.colorado.edu/regulations/ferpa_training.html.

Students should communicate with the Herbst Academic Center Academic Coordinators and the Tutor Coordinator.  Tutors should not communicate directly with faculty members or coaches.

Statement of Understanding of Access to Student Data
University of Colorado, Boulder

All new employees must sign and submit the linked PDF Statement of Understanding of Access to Student Data file here. 

Continue to Ethical Guidelines here.