Policy and Procedures

This website includes all College-wide Board Policy and Administrative Procedures. All policies and procedures are reviewed on a five-year cycle, or more frequently as needed.

If you have a suggestion for revision of a current policy or procedure or the creation of a new policy or procedure, please use the links to the left to submit your request. All requests will be considered by a policy/procedure review committee and subsequently the Administrative Team to determine if they are in the interest of Southeast Community College at large, as well as our employees, students and the communities we serve.

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The mission of Southeast Community College is to empower and transform the diverse learners and communities of southeast Nebraska through accessible lifelong educational opportunities. The College provides dynamic and responsive pathways to career and technical, academic transfer, and continuing education programs that contribute to personal, community, and workforce development.

Southeast Community College seeks to transform and empower its diverse learners for fulfilling careers, life-long learning, and community and societal advancement. The College is committed to ongoing intellectual, financial, and strategic investment in its infrastructure and all phases of its operations.

The College is dedicated to creating destinations and the highest quality learning climates through permanent, innovative, modern, virtually linked, sustainable, and collaborative facilities and green spaces. SCC will ensure its open-access mission is celebrated and realized through inclusivity, respect, and compassion toward the diverse views and ideas of its various student populations and constituents. The College will work collaboratively and courageously with its higher education partners, employers, and local and state officials to address Nebraska’s skilled worker shortage and the need for everyone to have affordable access to the life-changing benefits of higher education. SCC will utilize valid and dynamic data to respond to local and statewide needs to strengthen the College’s diverse communities and economies.

SCC strives to be a national leader in developing high-contact technical and academic experiences through personal and sincere relationships with engaged and invested faculty, staff, and administrators. These personal connections will be coupled with intensive learning opportunities through co-curricular involvement, research, volunteerism, and public service. SCC’s commitment to student transformation intentionally encompasses the development of essential life skills, including reflective thinking, resiliency, and emotional intelligence proficiency.

 

Excellence - Commitment to the highest level of performance in all facets of the College’s programs, services, and operations through effective investment and support of all assets.

Integrity - Continuous pursuit of fulfillment of mission and goals through transparency and ethical practices in all College operations.

Innovation - Commitment to inquiry and the respectful challenging of assumptions to promote creativity, alternative points of view, and opportunities for ongoing discovery.

Inclusion - Promotion of opportunities and advancement for a diverse and dynamic student, faculty/staff, and community population through the creation of a positive, compassionate, and reflective culture.

Stewardship and Accountability - Commitment to investment in appropriate resources in fulfillment of the College’s mission and goals and reliance on responsible management of human, physical, and financial resources.

  • 8.26.25 - Updated B-5 Additional Locations
  • 7.22.25 - Updated B-3 Policy Records Retention
  • 7.22.25 - Updated B-1 Policy President
  • 6.17.25 - Updated E-4 Policy Benefits
  • 4.25.25 - Updated B-2a Procedure College Organization
  • 4.4.25 - Updated E-14 Policy Institutional Compliance
  • 4.4.25 - Updated A-13a Procedure College Facilities Use
  • 3.23.25 - Updated B-2a Procedure College Organization
  • 9.13.24 - Updated A-13 Policy Use of College Facilities
  • 9.13.24 - Updated A-13a Procedure College Facilities Use
  • 6.27.24 - Updated E-4 Policy Benefits
  • 5.9.24 - Updated D-7 Policy Insurance/Claims
  • 5.9.24 - Updated D-7a Procedure Insurance/Claims
  • 5.9.24 - Updated E-18 Policy Title IX, Anti-discrimination, Anti-harassment, and Anti-retaliation
  • 3.27.24 - Updated A-13a Procedure College Facilities Use
  • 3.27.24 - Updated B-6 Policy Shared Governance
  • 3.27.24 - Updated B-6a Procedure Shared Governance
  • 3.27.24 - Updated E-20d Procedure Exit Procedures
  • 1.5.24 - Updated A-12 Policy Conflict of Interest
  • 1.5.24 - Updated A-12a Procedure Conflict of Interest
  • 12.18.23 - Added C-2a Procedure Competitive Club
  • 12.18.23 - Updated A-24 Policy Filling Vacancies on The Board of Governors
  • 12.18.23 - Updated A-23a Procedure Strategic Plan
  • 12.18.23 - Updated A-23 Policy Stratgic Plan
  • 12.18.23 - Updated A-22 Policy Naming of College Facilities
  • 12.18.23 - Updated A-21 Policy Firearms Weapons and Dangerous Weapons Prohibited
  • 12.18.23 - Updated A-20 Policy Intellectual Property
  • 12.18.23 - Updated A-19 Policy Standards of Conduct
  • 12.18.23 - Updated A-18b Procedure Cyber Security
  • 12.18.23 - Updated A-18a Procedure Information Technology
  • 12.18.23 - Updated A-18 Policy Use of Technology
  • 12.18.23 - Updated A-17a Procedure Diversity
  • 12.18.23 - Updated A-17 Policy Diversity Education
  • 12.18.23 - Updated A-16 Policy Access - Employment and Admission
  • 12.18.23 - Updated A-15 Policy Equal Opportunity - Non-Discrimination - Employment
  • 12.18.23 - Updated A-14 Policy Equal Opportunity - Non-Discrimination - Admission
  • 12.18.23 - Updated A-12a Procedure Conflict of Interest - Board Members
  • 12.18.23 - Updated A-12 Policy Conflict of Interest
  • 12.5.23 - Updated A-7 Policy Board Meetings - Regular
  • 12.5.23 - Updated A-8 Policy Board Meetings - Special
  • 12.5.23 - Updated A-9 Policy Board Meetings - Closed Sessions Executive Sessions
  • 12.5.23 - Updated A-9a Procedure Board Meetings - Closed Sessions Executive Sessions
  • 12.5.23 - Updated A-10 Policy Legal Counsel
  • 12.5.23 - Updated A-11 Policy Compensation
  • 12.5.23 - Updated A-11a Procedure Expense Reimbursement
  • 12.5.23 - Updated A-12 Policy Conflict of Interest
  • 12.5.23 - Updated C-10a Procedure Prior Learning Assessments
  • 12.5.23 - Updated C-10 Policy_Prior Learning Assessments
  • 12.5.23 - Added C-9b Procedure Institutional Tuition Waiver Scholarships
  • 12.5.23 - Added A-25 Policy Public Comment
  • 12.5.23 - Added A-25a Procedure Rights of the Public
  • 11.6.23 - A-6b Procedure - General Duties - Job Description - Board of Governors
  • 11.6.23 - A-6a Procedure Specific Duties and Powers
  • 11.6.23 - A-6 Policy General Duties and Powers
  • 11.6.23 - A-5 Policy Board Organization - Procedures
  • 11.6.23 - A-4 Policy Non-Voting Representatives
  • 11.6.23 - A-3 Policy Election Oversight
  • 11.6.23 - Revised A-2 Policy Statutory Mission
  • 11.6.23 - Revised A-1 Policy Philosophy
  • 11.6.23 - Revised D-10a Procedure Employee Expense Reimbursement
  • 10.23.23 - Added Procedure D-10b Procedure Student Expense Reimbursement
  • 10.23.23 - Updated Procedure D-10a Procedure Employee Expense Reimbursement
  • 10.18.23 - Updated Policy C-3 Policy Student Affairs
  • 07.25.23 – C-3b Procedure Graduation Requirements added
  • 06.14.23 - Updated Procedures C-10a and C-16a in Educational Services | Board of Governors (Section C)
  • 06.12.23 - Updated B-4a Procedure Policy-Procedure Development-Revision (PDF) | Administration/Management (Section B)
  • 03.21.23 - Updated All policies and procedures | Policies and Procedures (Above Sections)
  • 03.21.23 - Updated Procedure B-2a Procedure College Organization | Administration/Management (Section B)
  • 03.21.23 - Updated Policy B-2 Policy College Organization | Administration/Management (Section B)
  • 12.15.22 - Updated Policies C-1 through C-5 in Educational Services | Board of Governors (Section C)
  • 12.15.22 - Entire Section D: Revised Administration/Management Policy Section | Board of Governors (Section D)
  • 12.15.22 - Entire Section E: Revised Administration/Management Policy Section | Board of Governors (Section E)
  • 12.05.22 – C-3a PROCEDURE Student Affairs added
  • 11.15.22 – C-16a PROCEDURE Transfer of Credit added
  • 11.15.22 – C-16 POLICY Transfer of Credit added
  • 11.15.22 – C-15a PROCEDURE Institutional Articulation added
  • 11.15.22 – C-15 POLICY Institutional Articulation added
  • 10.21.22 – C-5a PROCEDURE Student Affairs added
  • 10.21.22 - Entire Section D: Revised Administration/Management Policy Section | Admin Team (Section D)
  • 10.21.22 - Entire Section E: Revised Administration/Management Policy Section | Admin Team (Section E)
  • 9.28.22 – B-1 Policy President revised
  • 9.28.22 – B-1a Procedure President removed
  • 9.28.22 – B-6 Policy Shared Governance added
  • 9.28.22 – B-6a Procedure Shared Governance added
  • 9.28.22 – C-14 Policy Program added
  • 9.28.22 – C-14a Procedure Program added
  • 9.8.22 – A-23 Policy Strategic Plan added
  • 9.8.22 – A-23a Procedure Strategic Plan added
  • 9.8.22 – B-5 Policy Additional Locations added
  • 9.8.22 – B-5a Procedure Additional Locations added
  • 9.8.22 – C-10 Policy Prior Learning Assessments added
  • 9.8.22 – C-10a Procedure Prior Learning Assessments added
  • 9.8.22 – C-11 Policy Consortia added
  • 9.8.22 – C-11a Procedure Consortia added
  • 9.8.22 – C-12 Policy Changes to Existing Programs added
  • 9.8.22 – C-12a Procedure Changes to Existing Programs added
  • 9.8.22 – C-13 Policy Academic Program Development added
  • 9.8.22 – C-13a Procedure Academic Program Development added
  • 8.8.22 – A-24 Policy Filling Vacancies on the Board of Governors added
  • 7.29.22 – A-3 Policy Election Oversight added
  • 7.29.22 – C-9 Policy Tuition and Fee added
  • 7.29.22 – C-9a Procedure Tuition and Fees added
  • 7.29.22 – C-8 Policy Credit Hour added
  • 7.29.22 – C-8a Procedure Credit Hour added
  • 5.25.22 – C-7a Procedure Consumer Information added
  • 5.25.22 – C-7 Policy Consumer Information added
  • 5.25.22 – B-2a Procedure College Organization revised
  • 3.21.22 – C-6a Procedure on Assessment added
  • 3.21.22 – C-6 Policy on Assessment added
  • 1.1.22 – A-2a College Mission Statement
  • 8.1.21 – Procedure E-3i (19) Employee Benefit – Tuition Waiver
  • 7.1.21 – Procedure E-3i (7) Employee Benefit – Vacation Leave
  • 4.1.21 – Procedure E-8f Worker’s Compensation moved & renamed from Personnel Section E to Fiscal Management Section D
  • 3.29.21 – Procedure A-13a Revised Procedure on Use of College Facilities Use | Admin Team
  • 9.16.20 – Procedures E-3d(1-5) moved & renamed from Personnel Section E to Fiscal Management Section D
  • 9.14.20 – A-18a Revised Procedure on Information Technology | Admin Team
  • 7.27.20 – E-3i(25)-18b Revised Procedure on Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) | Admin Team
  • 5.19.20 - Entire Section B: Revised Administration/Management Policy Section | Board of Governors
  • 5.18.20 - Entire Section B: Revised Administration/Management Procedure Section | Admin Team
  • 1.27.20 - A-18b New Procedure on Cyber Security | Admin Team
  • 1.21.20 - Entire Section A: Revised Board of Governors Policy Section | Board of Governors