POLICY NO: 206
EFFECTIVE DATE: 10/29/1991
GUIDELINES ON COOPERATIVE EXCHANGES OF CERTAIN
UNIVERSITY INFORMATION
These Guidelines apply to University information pertaining to tuition (including fees
for room and board), financial aid and salary levels for faculty and administrative
personnel.
- University officials may disclose policies and information to the public and may
communicate to others policies and information once they have been made public.
However, no University official shall communicate to an official of another school any
plans or projections, including budget assumptions, regarding tuition and fees or general
faculty salary levels prior to their final approval by the administration or the Trustees,
as appropriate.
- University officials must not participate in one-on-one or round table discussions
with representatives of other institutions about projected or anticipated levels of
tuition, fees, and salaries, or budget assumptions, and if such discussions occur,
University officials must excuse themselves.
- Decisions by the University relating to the setting of tuition, fees and salaries or
the awarding of financial aid must not be based upon or refer to projections of tuition,
fees, and salaries or financial aid by other educational institutions. University
officials cannot
solicit information concerning projected levels of tuition, fees and salaries or the
methodology for awarding financial aid at other educational institutions.
- No University official may request from, communicate to or exchange with any college
or University confidential financial aid information. For purposes of this policy,
confidential financial aid information includes but is not limited to the application of a
Needs Analysis Formula to, or how family or parental contribution will be calculated
for, a specific applicant; the University's plans or projections regarding summer savings
requirements or self-help; the aid awarded or proposed to be awarded any applicant except
as required by federal law.
- In general, current and historical data relating to tuition, fees and salaries may
be discussed and exchanged with representatives of other institutions, unless such
disclosure is proscribed (for reasons other than the antitrust laws) by University or
legal regulations. (For example, the University generally will not disclose the salary of
any
identified individual without his or her consent.) Thus, University officials may release
to representatives of other institutions and to the press information relating to current
or past levels of tuition, fees and aggregate salaries, and may participate in discussions
with representatives of other institutions about such current or past information.
However, University officials cannot disclose budget assumptions about future tuition,
fees and salaries, or suggest that the University will maintain current levels of tuition,
fees and salaries or will modify them in any particular way (e.g., to agree that tuition
and fees will rise by a specified percentage).
- Any University official who learns of a violation of these Guidelines or of Section
IV of the Final Judgment, must report it to the Antitrust Compliance Officer.
Questions about these guidelines should be directed to the Office of the General
Counsel.
Applicability: All University Employees
Cross-reference: Policy 001, Policy 201
Supersedes Policy Number(s): N/A