CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Faculty members should avoid conflict of interest and potential conflict of interest situations, including the following:

• Faculty members who wish to take graduate or undergraduate courses for academic credit in their own departments must obtain permission from their college deans.
• A spouse or dependent of a faculty member may not take courses taught by that faculty member for credit. Where possible, faculty members should not be the teacher for credit of relatives or close friends; when it is not possible to avoid these situations the faculty member must inform the department chair that a potential conflict may exist.
• In cases where a faculty member’s spouse, child, or relative, comes before a committee on which that faculty member serves, the faculty member will recuse himself or herself from the decision making process in that case.

VPAA 6/1/00

-- Main.nova - 14 Nov 2007