经济援助行为准则

Higher Education Opportunity Act (“HEOA”)

序言:

The Perdoceo Education Corporation family (“压电陶瓷”) includes colleges, schools 和 universities across the nation offering programs in a variety of career-oriented disciplines. 压电陶瓷 recognizes that ensuring the integrity of the student financial aid process is critical to providing students fair 和 affordable access to higher education. 为促进这一目标, 压电陶瓷 has promulgated the following HEOA 行为准则 (the “Code”) which prohibits activities which may create conflicts of interest in the student financial aid process between, 一方面，一方面, 压电陶瓷及其校园, 和, 另一方面, 是学生和他们的家长. This Code is in accordance with the requirements of the federal Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (“HEOA”), 并且包含了所有的项, 定义, exceptions 和 conditions set forth in the HEOA. 除了HEOA, 压电陶瓷, on behalf of itself 和 all of its campuses, agreed in April 2007 to comply with a 行为准则 promulgated by the Offices of the Attorneys General of the States of New York 和 Illinois, 以及亚利桑那州的压电陶瓷校区, 新泽西, 和 Pennsylvania have agreed to comply with Codes of Conduct presented by the Attorneys General of those states. (These State Codes of Conduct are referred to as the “State Codes.”) The following Code is intended to be consistent with the State Codes 和压电陶瓷及其校园 intend to continue to meet their obligations under the State Codes as well as this Code.

相应的, 压电陶瓷及其校园 shall take all reasonable steps to adhere to, 至少, the following principles in their financial aid operations:

原则:

压电陶瓷及其校园 will not enter into any revenue-sharing arrangement with any lender.
No officer or employee of 压电陶瓷及其校园 who is employed in the financial aid office or who otherwise has responsibilities with respect to education loans, or agent who has responsibilities with respect to education loans, will solicit or accept any gift from a lender, 教育贷款担保人或服务机构.
No officer or employee who is employed in the financial aid office of 压电陶瓷及其校园 or who otherwise has responsibilities with respect to education loans, or an agent who has responsibilities with respect to education loans, will accept from any lender or affiliate of any lender any fee, 付款, or other financial benefit (including the opportunity to purchase stock) as compensation for any type of consulting arrangement or other contract to provide services to a lender or on behalf of a lender relating to education loans.
压电陶瓷及其校园不会:

对于任何第一次借款者, 分配, 通过奖品包装或其他方式, the borrower’s loan to a particular lender; or
拒绝证明, 或者延迟认证, any loan based on the borrower’s selection of a particular lender or guaranty agency.

压电陶瓷及其校园 will not request or accept from any lender any offer of funds to be used for private education loans, including funds for an opportunity pool loan, to students in exchange for the institution providing concessions or promises regarding providing the lender with –

a specified number of loans made, insured or guaranteed;
a specified loan volume of such loans; or
a preferred lender arrangement for such loans.

压电陶瓷 will comply with all applicable federal 和 state requirements relating to the use of “preferred lender lists or arrangements.”
压电陶瓷及其校园 will not request or accept from any lender any assistance with call center staffing or financial aid office staffing.
Any employee of 压电陶瓷 or its campuses who is employed in the financial aid office, or who otherwise has responsibilities with respect to education loans or other student financial aid, 他是顾问委员会的成员, 委员会或小组 established by a lender, 担保人, 或者是一组贷款人或担保人, is prohibited from receiving anything of value from the lender, 担保人, 或者是一组贷款人或担保人, except that the employee may be reimbursed for reasonable expenses incurred in serving on such advisory board, 委员会或小组.
压电陶瓷及其校园 will administer 和 enforce this 行为准则 by, 至少, requiring that all of its agents with responsibilities with respect to education loans be annually informed of the provisions of this 行为准则.