Outside Employment/Activity/Consulting

 

UF Form http://www.aa.ufl.edu/aa/forms/

IFAS form http://forms.ifas.ufl.edu/forms/personnel/Disclosure2627.pdf

INTERNAL MANAGEMENT MEMORANDUM NUMBER: 6C1-6.30-1-12 (Revised)

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 2002

SUBJECT: IFAS; Disclosure of IFAS Outside Employment/Activity/Consulting for Faculty & A&P

General Policy Overview.

IFAS faculty/A&P employees have professional duties, responsibilities, and obligations to IFAS' goals of teaching, research, extension, and service as manifested in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS), FAES, and the FCES. Their primary professional and intellectual responsibilities are to the University. Appropriate time and energy is devoted to one's University duties, responsibilities, and obligations to ensure they are met. However, upon disclosure and administrative review, faculty/A&P may also engage in outside employment, consulting, and other similar activities. These disclosed activities may further the dissemination and use of the knowledge and expertise developed at the University and may also advance the professional competence and reputation of the faculty/A&P. Thus, participation in outside activities sometimes serves the mission of the University and IFAS in addition to benefitting the respective employees.

Such activities and the financial interests of employees are of concern to the University if they result or could result in conflict with one's duties, responsibilities, and obligations to the University. Therefore, disclosure of any outside activity or financial interest is required. Examples of outside activities include:

• business activity with a potential of financial gain

• serving on a policymaking board of directors

• consulting

• honoraria

• court appearances

There is a limit to the time that faculty/A&P can spend in outside activities. The limit of time is one day (eight (8) hours) per seven (7) day week on average (see 5.).

In reviewing the disclosure, outside activities will be assessed for their potential conflict of interest and/or conflict of commitment. Faculty/A&P may participate in such outside activities and hold financial interests as long as there is no conflict and they are fulfilling their duties, responsibilities, and obligations to the University.

The University's official statement is located at: http://rgp.ufl.edu/research/outside_activities.html.

Related policies are substantially defined in the Florida Administrative Code (Rules). All are accessible on the web from the IFAS Personnel Affairs Website: http://personnel.ifas.ufl.edu/

6C1- 1.011, Disclosure and Regulation of Outside Activities and Financial Interests; 6C1- 6.015, IFAS Outside Activity Guidelines