Higher Ed board discusses criminal background checks: "The state Board of Higher Education plans to ask the Legislature for permission to conduct criminal background checks on employees, job applicants and students in certain areas.
The idea drew some questions when it was discussed at the board's meeting Thursday at Dickinson State University.
Nicholas Rogers, the student board member from North Dakota State University, said he could not support the proposal without knowing more about how it would impact his fellow students.
The proposed change in the law would the state university system to do a statewide and nationwide criminal history record check 'for each applicant or employee in a specified position in the university system or a university system institution or for each student applying to or admitted to a specified program of study, as designated by the chancellor.''
Valley City State University President Dr. Ellen Chaffee and university system attorney Pat Seaworth said the background checks would not be mandatory."
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