Greetings,
We are writing to make you aware of a new state-mandated training requirement for all university employees, including at the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center.
Ohio Senate Bill 91 recently amended Ohio Rev. Code 4113.52 to require all state employees, with few exceptions, to report alleged fraud, theft in office or misuse or misappropriation of public money to the state. House Bill 33 then amended Ohio Rev. Code 117.103 to require all state employees, which includes public university employees, to complete training on Ohio’s fraud-reporting system as directed by Ohio’s Auditor of State.
Per the Auditor of State’s guidance, all current Ohio State employees — including all university and medical center faculty, staff (regular, term, temporary, and intermittent), graduate associates, and student employees — must complete the training by Oct. 29, 2024. New employees must complete the training within 30 days of their start date. The training must be documented by Ohio State and repeated every four years.
To ease distribution and facilitate compliance tracking and documentation, the university is delivering the required training in BuckeyeLearn. The BuckeyeLearn training, titled Reporting Fraud, Waste, and Abuse, is available now, which gives employees 30 days to comply with the state-mandated completion deadline of Oct. 29. This training is being automatically assigned to each existing employee and all new employees through their BuckeyeLearn transcript. This process should take approximately 10 minutes to complete.
Group training can be held by completing this request form and submitting it to the Financial Training mailbox at financialtraining@osu.edu.
Thank you for your prompt attention in completing this training requirement.
Mike Papadakis
Senior Vice President and CFO
Office of Business and Finance
Karla Zadnik
Interim Executive Vice President and Provost
Glenn A. Fry Professor in Optometry and Physiological Optics
Office of Academic Affairs