Forced to Justify Board Membership
A stricter conflict-of-interest policy the University of California Board of Regents approved for high-ranking leaders last month… requires top administrators who want to hold outside positions to describe how their service will benefit their institutions. That’s a very different proposition than a more traditional policy, which would require administrators to pledge that their roles outside the university do not create a conflict of interest… The newly passed rules, which UC President Janet Napolitano proposed, apply to a 165-member senior management group. That group includes chancellors at campuses as well as other high-level administrators. But they grandfather in administrators’ existing outside positions…
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by Rick Seltzer, Inside Higher Ed.