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Trustees approve University of Tennessee System Institutional Compliance Plan for 2025
Summary
The Audit and Compliance Committee approved the system'level Institutional Compliance Plan for 2025, with priorities on education, connected risk, monitoring and communication and continued rollout of research compliance modules.
The Board of Trustees Audit and Compliance Committee approved the University of Tennessee System'wide Institutional Compliance Plan for 2025.
Sarah Pruett, system compliance lead, presented the plan and highlighted a focus on education, a partnership with internal audit on "connected risk," and monitoring and communication to meet regulatory requirements.
Pruett recapped work from 2024, including the launch of an AuditBoard compliance platform and a system self-assessment of internal controls under the Tennessee Financial Integrity Act, which she said surveyed roughly 700 departments and achieved 100% completion. She described a compliance roadshow at UT Martin last fall and said the system launched risk assessments for UT Institute of Agriculture (UTIA) and UT Martin.
For 2025, Pruett said the compliance office will increase subject-matter training, continue coordination with Audit to address findings through their lifecycle and improve monitoring and communication for regulatory developments. She said campuses recently appointed compliance officers (including a new chief campus compliance officer at the Knoxville campus) and that the system will launch risk assessments for Chattanooga and the Health Science Center.
In research compliance, Pruett noted at least three DASH modules will be implemented in 2025 to address grants and agreements, human subjects research and export control. She referenced the board's October 2024 board policy on export control as a continuing element of research security.
Pruett also described work with environmental health and safety and emergency management teams and said policy updates would follow the system's policy governance process under GE1.
Chair Jenkins called for a motion and the committee approved the compliance plan by voice vote.
Ending: The committee approved the 2025 Institutional Compliance Plan; staff said they will continue coordinating with campuses as DASH and other research modules are implemented and as regulatory requirements evolve.
