What is a conflict of interest or commitment?
Conflicts of Interest exist whenever an individual’s personal, professional, commercial, or financial interests or activities outside of the Institute have the possibility whether real or perceived of: (1) compromising an employee’s judgment; (2) biasing the nature or direction of scholarship; (3) influencing an employee’s decision or behavior with respect to teaching and student affairs, promotions and appointments, uses of Institute resources, interactions with human subjects, or other matters of interest to the Institute; or (4) resulting in a personal or family member’s gain or advancement at the expense of the Institute. Family members are defined as spouses, parents, siblings, in-laws, children, domestic partners, and dependents.
Conflicts of Interest exist whenever an individual’s personal, professional, commercial, or financial interests or activities outside of the Institute have the possibility whether real or perceived of: (1) compromising an employee’s judgment; (2) biasing the nature or direction of scholarship; (3) influencing an employee’s decision or behavior with respect to teaching and student affairs, promotions and appointments, uses of Institute resources, interactions with human subjects, or other matters of interest to the Institute; or (4) resulting in a personal or family member’s gain or advancement at the expense of the Institute. Family members are defined as spouses, parents, siblings, in-laws, children, domestic partners, and dependents. Conflicts of Commitment exist whenever an employee’s external commitments, relationships, or activities have the possibility whether real or perceived of interfering or competing with the Institute’s mission, or with that individual’s ability or willingn
