National Criminal Background Check (NCBC) Requirements

Illinois State University (ISU) is transitioning, in the Fall of 2019, to requiring all ISU teacher candidates to complete a one-time online National Criminal Background Check.  The new NCBC will replace our previously required yearly Illinois State Police criminal background check.  The NCBC will offer greater expansion into criminal histories to ensure the protection of ours pre K-12 students by verifying the teacher candidate has not been convicted of illegal activity nationally.  The steps below must be followed with results being reported to the Teacher Education Center before students may begin any clinical experience.

• Previous Illinois State Police criminal background checks already processed in the Teacher Education Center are still valid until expiration (1 year after obtained).  If students have questions about validity, they can e-mail teacheredcenter@ilstu.edu
• The NCBC will cost $36 and be valid for 10 years, while any previous Illinois State Police CBC is only valid for one year.
• The NCBC will also be completely online through Bushue Background Screening and be completed by following our NCBC process below.
• See the clinical experiences checklist for additional information about clinical experiences
• The NCBC meets the internal ISU milestone requirement for the Criminal Background Check.  Students will be responsible for meeting all clinical site (schools) CBC requirements, which are separate of the ISU internal NCBC requirement.   Students should contact clinical sites and follow their CBC expectations before beginning clinical experiences.

NCBC PROCESS

1. Open ISU Student NCBC Instructions and review the document steps. 
2. Once ready to proceed, open the Bushue companies, ISU Education Background Check Link below and complete all pages, forms and processing fee ($36) to initiate your NCBC check.
• ISU Education - Background Check
3. Once you initiate your NCBC, your records will be reviewed at the county, state and federal levels.  Once all of those levels have been reviewed, your results will be returned to ISU for final processing by the Teacher Education Center.
   • This takes a minimum of 3-5 business days after you start the NCBC online for results to be received by the Teacher Education Center, with some county checks taking up to 10 business days to be fully processed.
   •  If there are concerns, contact teacheredcenter@ilstu.edu or info@bushuebackgroundscreening.com
4. Once final processing occurs, you will receive an e-mail notification of your NCBC status.  If cleared, your CBC milestone will also be updated.
5. If you need a copy of your NCBC, you will need to contact Bushue at info@bushuebackgroundscreening.com  
6. Your professor may want to see your completed CBC milestone.  For how to access this information to print for your professor, please view our tracking your progress document.

 

If you have questions, please e-mail teacheredcenter@ilstu.edu and we will work to assist you.

• If you have already completed the former CBC process, and you have sent it to the Teacher Education Center, you will NOT need to complete this process until the time your CBC expires (1 year from issued date).  If you currently have a valid CBC from an outside group, please contact the Teacher Education Center staff at teacheredcenter@ilstu.edu and we will determine if it can be accepted during our Fall 2019 transition.