Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3356 - Youngstown State University › Chapter 3356-7 - University Employees and Benefits › Section 3356-7-18 - Outside consulting/employment services - faculty

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Policy
			 statement. The university supports faculty participation in activities in the
			 government, industry, and other private institutions that generally serve the
			 academic interest of the university. Students, the university, and the state of
			 Ohio generally benefit from experiences faculty bring to the classroom and the
			 recognition that such experiences bring to the faculty and university.
			 Therefore, faculty may provide professional consulting services to entities or
			 individuals outside the university and receive compensation for such services
			 as long as the services do not create a conflict of commitment with the
			 performance of their university duties, compete with the interests and work of
			 the university, or violate any university policy or state or federal statute or
			 applicable research or grant-funding guidelines.
(B) Purpose. The purpose of this policy is to
			 establish guidelines under which faculty may engage in outside paid consulting
			 services and the reporting requirements which arise when faculty engage in such
			 services outside of their university duties and in their areas of general
			 professional expertise.
(C) Scope. This policy applies to all
			 full-time faculty who perform the duties of an educator, instructor, or
			 professor and whose primary position does not involve the performance of or
			 authority to perform administrative or supervisory functions.
			 This policy does not apply to external professional
			 activities that are expected of faculty in their professional roles, such as
			 work on peer review panels and advisory bodies for other universities or
			 publishers. This policy does not apply to employees covered by
			 rule
			 3356-7-34
			 of the Administrative Code ( university policy 3356-7-34, "Outside
			 consulting services/employment - full-time university employees").
(D) Definition. In general, "consulting" is
			 defined as professional activity related to the person's field or discipline,
			 where a fee-for-service or equivalent relationship with a third party
			 exists.
(E) Parameters.
(1) Ohio ethics laws
			 and related statutes:
(a) The prohibitions
			 contained in Ohio ethics law in divisions (D) and (E) of section
			 
										102.03
			 of the Revised Code do not apply to faculty who are educators and whose
			 position does not involve administrative or supervisory functions.
Divisions (D) and (E)
				of section
				102.03
				of the Revised Code prohibit employees from soliciting, accepting, or using
				their position to secure anything of value if the thing of value is of such a
				character as to have a substantial and improper influence upon the employee
				with respect to their duties.
(b)
										
										Sections
										102.04
			 and
			 2921.43
			 of the Revised Code prohibit all faculty, regardless of whether they perform
			 administrative or supervisory duties, from receiving payment from a third party
			 for the performance of their official duties.
(c)
										
										Section
										2921.42
			 of the Revised Code prohibits all faculty from having an unlawful interest in a
			 public contract (i.e., authorizing or influencing the university to enter into
			 a contract that benefits the employee, family, or business associates, or
			 simply benefitting from a contract with the university unless the exceptions in
			 division (c) section
			 2921.42
			 of the Revised Code are met).