Standard Policy

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Pets and Other Living Creatures

Mission: Renaissance Standard Operating Policy 16 August 2011 Revised 25 August 2018 Pets and Other Living Creatures At no time do we allow dogs, cats, birds, fish, snakes, or other living animals in classes. Students MAY NOT bring their pets to class. The ONLY exception would be a "Service Dog", which will be further defined below. [...]

Price Adjustments

Mission: Renaissance Standard Operating Policy 15 August 2011 Price Adjustments On an ongoing basis you must adjust your retail art supply pricing based on your costs. Our suppliers adjust their pricing regularly throughout the year and often without notice. One week you buy a supply from them at $2.50 and the next week it’s $2.75. [...]

No Back-Room Deals

Mission: Renaissance Standard Operating Policy 6 August 2011 No Back-Room Deals It may surprise you that this late in our existence that policy such as this is being written. Frankly, it suprises me too. None-the-less, here it is. There are to be no “backroom” or “under-the-table” or “off-the-books” deals being made with staff, students or [...]

Reality and Attendance Records

Mission: Renaissance Standard Operating Policy 5 August 2011 Reality and Attendance Records Attendance is taken for each and every class that is held at Mission: Renaissance. It is a record of “EXACTLY” what occurred in that class. Who “attended”, who “cancelled” and who “no-showed”. Each attendance record must include the names and the attendance status [...]

Photo, Video and Audio Recordings of Students, Students Artwork and/or Classes

Mission: Renaissance Standard Operating Policy 11 June 2011 Photo, Video and Audio Recordings of Students, Students Artwork and/or Classes Under NO circumstance are staff allowed to freely take photos, record videos or make audio tape recordings of students, student artwork or classes for any purpose! While I believed we had covered this thoroughly in previous [...]

Obtain Approval Before You Act

Mission: Renaissance Standard Operating Policy 25 May 2011 Obtain Approval Before You Act Over the last few weeks I’ve run into some peculiar situations that required me to intervene and resolve. Each were well-meaning ideas geared toward growing our enrollment but they were also uneconomical, of little or no long-term value and none had been [...]

Friend Requests

Mission: Renaissance Standard Operating Policy 22 april 2013 Friend Requests Social media has been the topic of discussion for a number of years with questions as to how it will effect the future of business and society in general. While the society has definetly gone through incredible changes due to social media, its use in [...]

Student Pitfalls

Mission: Renaissance Standard Operating Policy 28 February 2015 Student Pitfalls I recently had the opportunity to sit down with a couple of new Program Directors to discuss some best practices for building their enrollments and in doing so realized that we have written exhaustively on the subject of promotional activities to get new and returning [...]

Bank Account Reconciliations

Mission: Renaissance Standard Operating Policy 30 December 1999 Bank Account Reconciliations The continued survival and expansion of this group is reliant upon proper financial management. It is the duty of the FP Committee to allocate company funds and to approve of future purchases. In order for the FP Committee to make sound judgments, they must [...]

NSF Checks

Mission: Renaissance Standard Operating Policy 20 December 1999 NSF Checks NSF is the abbreviation used for Non-Sufficient Funds. It is a nice way of saying that someone bounced a check. Whether you knew it or not before, you will know it now. When someone bounces a check to another person or business, the recipient of [...]