Campus Email from the COICOC 14 Jan 2009

From: Human Resources
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:28:22 -0800 (PST)

January 14, 2009
TO: The University of Oregon Community
FROM: Peter B Gilkey (Committee Chair)
SUBJECT: The COI/COC Senate Ad Hoc Committee

Senate President Paul van Donkelaar has appointed the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Conflict of Interest/Conflict of Commitment (COI/COC). The committee is charged with reviewing and, where needed, suggesting revisions to the draft COI/COC policy to meet essential legal and policy requirements with a keen sensitivity to academic freedom and the culture of a public research university. The committee is to make a focused effort to consider the policy and associated disclosure form. We plan to present a revised draft at the March 11, 2009 UO Senate meeting.

The committee will hold a town hall meeting in 166 Lawrence from 1500-1700 on Wednesday 21 January 2009. The meeting is sponsored jointly by the UO Senate and by the UO Chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Carl Bybee, Rob Horner, and Rich Linton will each give brief ten minute presentations at the beginning of the meeting. Following that, the meeting will be opened up to a general discussion -- the members of the COI/COC committee and the executive committee of the UO Chapter of the AAUP will be present at the front of the room to serve as a resource. I will act as moderator of the meeting.

The committee has a web page: http://www.uoregon.edu/~uosenate/dirsen089/COICOCC.html All documents the committee has received are linked from that web page. You are invited to submit additional documents/statements/etc. for the committee to be posted as well. They may be sent to me at gilkey@uoregon.edu.

Respectfully submitted,

Peter B Gilkey
Chair COI/COC Senate Ad Hoc Committee
Mathematics Department
University of Oregon
Eugene OR 97403
http://uoregon.edu/~gilkey


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