a. Outside Professional Activities
The University recognizes that outside professional activities can be beneficial for the faculty member’s scholarship and for the University. Full-time faculty members may arrange their schedules to participate in outside activities no more than the equivalent of one day per week during the faculty member’s appointment period. The faculty member may receive compensation for these outside activities.
Outside professional activities policies apply to full-time faculty on 12-month appointments and full-time faculty on 10-month appointments during the academic year. Faculty members on 10-month appointments may, during the summer months, engage in teaching (including extra service pay at the University), research, professional practice, and other activities of their own choosing. Outside professional activities occurring during a faculty member’s appointment period must be disclosed annually and reviewed with the faculty member’s department chair, program director, academic unit leader, or dean as part of the faculty work plan and evaluation process. Faculty members are responsible for ensuring that outside activities do not interfere with the satisfactory fulfillment of University responsibilities or create actual or perceived conflicts of commitment.
Outside activities are based upon two criteria:
• The activities further the development of the individual as a faculty member at the University, and
• The activities further the mission of the University.
It is a conflict of commitment to be employed to teach at another school onsite or online independent of the University while serving as a full-time faculty member at the University. From time to time, exceptions may be made. The procedure for exceptions includes review of the plan with the appropriate director, department chair, or dean and requires approvals by the appropriate department chair or dean and the provost. Faculty members may go on an academic leave and serve as visiting faculty at another school with permission of the department chair, director, or dean and provost and vice president for academic affairs. Faculty may hold honorary academic titles at other colleges and universities.