Outside Employment

Staff

The following policies and procedures are promulgated in accordance with the Regents’ Rules and Regulations.

1. Any consistently performed activity for remuneration, other than fulfilling one's duties at The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College is
   considered outside employment.
2. Employees of the University are not discouraged from accepting appointments of a consultative or advisory capacity with governmental agencies, industry, or other educational institutions. The consideration to the University of such activity is the improvement of the individual by virtue of his or her continuing contact with nonacademic problems in the non-academic world.
3. In accordance with the Regents’ Rules and Regulations, outside employment is discouraged because it results in divisiveness of loyalties and does not provide the return to the institution.
4. Outside employment is prohibited when such employment or responsibility will be in conflict with the interests of the State of Texas or The University of Texas System or any of its institutions.
5. Conflicts of interest should be avoided in all instances of outside employment. No employee engaged in outside employment shall use University resources including time, materials, or give as a business address any University building or department.
6. No full-time employee shall be employed in any outside work or activity or receive from an outside source a regular retainer fee or salary until a description of the nature and extent of the employment has been submitted to and approved at the Vice President level.

Faculty

Outside employment is construed as any activity performed by a member of the faculty, other than fulfilling employment obligations at The University of Texas at Brownsville, for which remuneration is received.

1. Members of the faculty are not discouraged from accepting appointments of consultative or advisory capacity with governmental agencies, industry, or other educational institutions when such activity results in the development and improvement of professional skill through the application of those skills in practice in a non-academic setting.
2. Members of the faculty are cautioned against accepting regular employment outside The University of Texas at Brownsville which might detract from their professional involvement and development or which might detract from their abilities to meet their professional duties and responsibilities.
3. Conflict of interest with employment obligations at The University of Texas at Brownsville must be avoided in all instances of outside employment.
4. Any outside employment which may intrude upon the academic functions of teaching, scholarly activities, and service to the institution is prohibited.
5. No faculty member shall be employed in any outside work or activity or receive from an outside source a regular fee or salary until a description of the nature and extent of the employment has been filed and approved. Any proposed outside employment involving continuing and repetitive activities must be approved in advance by the faculty member’s Chair, Dean, and the Vice President for Academic Affairs and the President. Any proposed outside employment which involves activities of a non-continuing and non-repetitive nature, such as consultation activities, must be approved in advance by the faculty or staff member’s Chair, Dean and the Vice President for Academic Affairs.
6. Even in the case of members of the faculty specifically engaged only in residence work, there exists an obligation, usually intermittent, to furnish expert knowledge and counsel for public benefit free of charge, provided that the meeting of this obligation by a faculty member does not interfere with his or her regular duties, and provided further that in meeting this obligation a faculty or staff member on full-time duty shall avoid undue competition with legitimate private agencies.
7. No member of the faculty engaged in outside remunerative activities shall use in connection therewith the official stationary of The University of Texas at
   Brownsville, or give as a business address any building or department of the university.
8. No member of the faculty shall accept employment or any position of responsibility if the discharge of such employment or responsibility will be antagonistic to the interest of the State of Texas or the System or any of the institutions.
9. Every member of the faculty who gives professional opinions must protect the System and/or The University of Texas at Brownsville against the use of such opinions for advertising purposes. That is, when the faculty member does work in a private capacity, the faculty member must make it clear to those who employ him or her that the work is unofficial and that the name of the System and/or The University of Texas at Brownsville is not in any way to be connected with the faculty member's name, exception being made of the name of the author attached to books, pamphlets, articles in periodicals and firm, tapes and/or software.
10. No member of the faculty shall accept pay from a private person or other party for work of a routine character, which involves the use of property owned by The University of Texas at Brownsville, unless advance permission has been obtained from the Vice President for Academic Affairs and provision has been made for compensation to the University.