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…

You spend so much time during work hours preparing for the conference workshop that you miss an important deadline in your job.