Ethics FAQ

EthicsPoint is a comprehensive and confidential reporting tool to assist students, management and employees to work together to address fraud, abuse, and misconduct on Snow College’s campus, all while cultivating a positive environment.

Yes. By giving you choices, EthicsPoint helps ensure that anyone can file a report anonymously and in the manner most comfortable or convenient to them.

• We believe that our employees and students are our most important asset. By creating open channels of communication, we can promote a positive work environment and maximize productivity.
• An effective reporting system can be our most useful tool in reducing losses due to fraud and abuse.

We certainly do. In fact, we need you to report. You know what is going on around campus - both good and bad. You may have initial knowledge of an activity that may be cause for concern. Your reporting can minimize the potential negative impact on Snow College and its students and employees. Also, offering positive input may help identify issues that can improve Snow College’s culture and performance.

We all have the right to work and learn in a positive environment and with that right comes the responsibility of acting in an ethical manner and letting the appropriate people know if someone is not acting appropriately. By working together, we can maintain a healthy and productive environment. Misconduct can threaten the livelihood of the entire college.

EthicsPoint is a communications tool providing an avenue for sharing information of any kind.

You certainly can, but there are several good reasons why you should use EthicsPoint as well. First, EthicsPoint ensures that your report gets to the appropriate people. That may or may not happen if you simply report something to management, especially when dealing with issues not under his/her control. More importantly, reports can be filed anonymously and all report information is secure and held in the strictest confidence.

EthicsPoint does not generate or maintain any internal connection logs with IP addresses, so no information linking your PC to EthicsPoint is available. 

With fewer than 12% of reports generated during business hours, most people prefer to report from the comfort of their home after hours and on the weekend.

A report from home, a neighbor’s computer, or any Internet portal will remain secure and anonymous.  An Internet portal never identifies a visitor by screen name and the EthicsPoint system strips away Internet addresses so that anonymity is totally maintained. Plus, EthicsPoint is contractually committed not to pursue a reporter’s identity. 

The EthicsPoint system is designed to protect your anonymity. However, you as a reporting party need to ensure that the body of the report does not reveal your identity by accident, for example, “From my cube next to Jan Smith…” or “In my 33 years…”

The EthicsPoint system concentrates on being a positive aspect of our overall philosophy, and allows us to assure a safe, secure, and ethical workplace. You are encouraged to seek guidance on ethical dilemmas, provide positive suggestions, or communicate a concern. Effective communication is critical in today’s workplace and this is a great tool to enhance that communication.

We have carefully chosen the best reporting tool to meet our compliance obligations while maintaining a positive reporting environment.

Snow College chooses to promote ethical behavior.  All unethical conduct, at any level, ultimately hurts the college and all students and employees, including you. You only have to consider what happened in recent corporate scandals to see disastrous effects that a seemingly harmless lapse in ethics can have on an otherwise healthy company, or in our case, College. So if you know of any incidents of misconduct or ethical violations, consider it your duty to yourself and your coworkers/fellow students to report it.

File a report. EthicsPoint can help you prepare and file your report so it can be properly understood. We'd rather you report a situation that turns out to be harmless than let possible unethical behavior go unchecked because you weren't sure.

Reports are entered directly on the EthicsPoint secure server to prevent any possible breech in security. EthicsPoint makes these reports available only to specific individuals within the College who are charged with evaluating the type of violation and location of the incident. Each of these report recipients has had training in keeping these reports in the utmost confidence.

The EthicsPoint system and report distribution are designed so that implicated parties are not notified or granted access to reports they have been named in.

When you file a report at the EthicsPoint Web site or through the EthicsPoint Call Center, you receive a unique user name and are asked to choose a password. You can return to the EthicsPoint system again either by Internet or telephone and access the original report to answer questions posed by a college representative and add further information that will help resolve open issues.  We strongly suggest that you return to the site in the time specified to answer any questions. You and the college now have entered into an “anonymous dialogue” where situations are not only identified but can be resolved, no matter how complex.

All EthicsPoint correspondences are held in the same strict confidence as the initial report, continuing under the umbrella of anonymity.

There is a section in the report for identifying yourself, if you wish.

You can file an EthicsPoint report from any computer that can access the Internet. You can file from home. Many public locations, including the public library, have Internet computers. If you don’t have access or are uncomfortable using a computer, you can call your EthicsPoint toll-free hotline at 888-399-0376 which is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Yes. You will be asked to provide the same information that you would provide in an Internet-based report and an interviewer will type your responses into the EthicsPoint Web site. These reports have the same security and confidentiality measures applied to them during delivery.