Introduction to Potential Conflicts of Interest
and Conflicts of Commitment

What are the limits?   

When you undertake external activities that are related in some way to your work, the University must be sure, as part of its universal commitment to integrity, that those activities do not create a potential conflict of interest or conflict of commitment. 

Expanding on the illustration from the preceding screen, below is an example of a potential conflict of commitment in which the outside commitment could keep you from performing your University duties…

The conference of non-profit financial officers is scheduled at a time that would require you to cancel three classes with no possibility of making them up.