Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3364 - University of Toledo › Chapter 3364-10 - Reporting and processing job injuries; legal counsel › Section 3364-10-17 - Minors on campus

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Policy statement
The university seeks to promote the safety and welfare of
				minors who participate in university youth programs.
(B) Purpose of policy
This policy describes the requirements placed on units offering
				university youth programs, requirements placed on all faculty, staff, or
				volunteers working with the youth program. This policy also informs all
				university community members about required reporting relating to known or
				suspected abuse or neglect of minors.
(C) Scope
This policy applies to all university faculty, staff, students,
				volunteers or others working in a university youth program. Paragraph (E)(8) in
				this policy regarding mandatory reporting applies to all university employees,
				regardless of their association with a university youth program or not.
(D) Definitions
Minor: an individual under the age of eighteen.
Faculty, staff, or volunteer: any person who is employed by,
				contracted by, or has volunteered for the university to serve or work in a
				university youth program.
Participant: any minor participating in a university youth
				program.
Unit: any academic, administrative, athletic, or other college,
				school, program, department, division, office, or other part of the
				university.
University youth program: any program, event, operation,
				endeavor, or activity offered, operated, conducted, or organized by any
				university unit, faculty or staff member, or
				volunteer that includes minors, including but not
				limited to lessons, tutoring, advising, work in a lab, shadowing an individual
				on campus, camp, or other opportunity regardless of the
				duration and regardless of the source of funding
				for the program. This excludes:
(1)
			 Events in which parents, guardians, or other adult chaperones are in attendance
			 and are responsible for the care, custody, and control of their
			 minor(s);
(2) Events that are open
			 to the general public;
(3)
			 University students hosting siblings or other family members during "family
			 weekend";
(4) Rocket launch days
			 for newly admitted students;
(5)
			 Campus visits where minors "shadow" a university student, take a facility tour,
			 or participate in an event for admitted students.
(6) Medical care provided in an inpatient or
			 outpatient setting governed by university of Toledo medical center ("UTMC")
			 policies;
(7) Institutional review
			 board ("IRB")-approved research;
(8) Regularly-scheduled university-level
			 courses offered as part of the university's standard curriculum in which minor
			 students are enrolled and attending, including but not limited to students
			 participating in college credit plus.
(9) Events that occur at university
			 facilities but are offered, operated, conducted, or organized by an entity
			 other than the university. For these events, the sponsor must certify to the
			 university that all faculty, staff, or volunteers for their program have been
			 criminal background checked and meet the university's requirements for
			 background checks, are trained, and the university must be named in the third
			 party's insurance.