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Selected
Policies and Guidelines
Principles
of Conflict of Interest 
The University's overall policy on conflict of interest specifies
that its faculty, staff, managers, or officials may not engage in
any activities which place them in a conflict of interest between
their official University activities and any other interest or obligation.
It requires that all University employees disqualify themselves from
participating in a University decision when a financial conflict of
interest is present.
Administrative Officials are responsible for ensuring the University's
teaching, research, and public service activities are conducted with
integrity in an open, free, and objective environment, and in adherence
with the following principles and responsibilities:
Principles
| A. |
Teaching,
research, and public service performed by UCSC employees are
to be conducted in an atmosphere that is free of conflicts of
interest. |
| B. |
Outside
activities or interests should be closely assessed and, if need
be, reviewed by an independent party, to assure that the integrity
and objectivity of all employees is protected in performance
of their University obligations. |
| C. |
Each
unit is responsible for maintaining a reasonable balance between
competing interests and providing a mechanism to help maintain
research integrity, protect student interests, and foster an
open academic environment. |
| D. |
The
reporting of financial interests and the withdrawal from decision
making shall be consistent with the University's Conflict of
Interest Code and the State of California's Political Reform
Act of 1974. |
Responsibilities
Minimizing the risk of conflict of
interest situations means:
| A. |
identifying
employees who make major financial decisions for the University
so that they can be properly classified as Designated Officials |
| B. |
that
each Designated Official must submit, on an annual basis
or upon assuming or leaving a designated position, a financial
disclosure statement |
| C. |
prohibiting
a University employee from purchasing, leasing, and/or entering
into a contract for goods and services from
| 1. |
any
University employee or business in which any University
employee has a 10% or greater interest unless the Director
of Materiel Management has determined that the desired
goods or services are not available from any other readily
available source |
| 2. |
any
near-relative of a University employee or business in
which any near-relative has a 10% or greater interest
unless the Director of Materiel Management has determined
that the University employee has no responsibility for
or any involvement in the purchasing decision |
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| D. |
implementing
a process to ensure the systematic review of all Principal Investigators
financial disclosures prior to the acceptance of gifts, contracts,
or grants from non-governmental sponsors when the amount of
the award is $250 or more over a 12-month period |
| E. |
ensuring
that faculty responsible for the design, conduct, or reporting
of a sponsored project disclose to the University interests
| 1. |
that
would appear to be affected by the funded research or
educational activities |
| 2. |
in
entities whose financial interests would reasonably appear
to be affected by such activities |
| 3. |
in
entities that the Principal Investigator, the Principal
Investigator's spouse or dependent children has an ownership
interest of $1,000 or more |
| 4. |
in
entities where the Principal Investigator is a director,
officer, partner, trustee, consultant, or manager |
| 5. |
in
entities from whom the Principal Investigator has received
$1,000 or more in income, gifts, or loans |
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