Current through August 26, 2024
(1) PERSONAL GAIN FROM UNIVERSITY POSITION.
(a) No member of the unclassified staff may,
in a manner contrary to the interests of the University of Wisconsin System,
use or attempt to use his or her public position or state property, including
property leased by the state, to gain or attempt to gain anything of
substantial value for the private benefit of the staff member, his or her
immediate family or any organization with which the staff member is
associated.
(b) No member of the
unclassified staff may solicit or accept from any person or organization
anything of value pursuant to an express or implied understanding that his or
her conduct of university business would be influenced thereby.
(c) No member of the unclassified staff may
intentionally use or disclose confidential university information in any way
that could result in the receipt of anything of value for himself or herself,
for his or her immediate family or for any other person or organization with
which the staff member is associated.
(2) CONTRACTING AND LEASING.
(a) No member of the unclassified staff,
member of his or her immediate family, nor any organization with which an
unclassified staff member is associated, may enter into any contract or lease
involving payments of $3,000 or more within a 12 month period, derived in whole
or in part from university funds, if the staff member is in a position to
approve or influence, in his or her official capacity, the university's
decision to enter into the contract or lease.
(b) If the staff member is not in a position
to approve or influence the university's decision, the staff member may enter
into a contract or lease described in par. (a) if the staff member first makes
written disclosure of the nature and extent of any relationship described in
par. (a) to the dean, director, or other appropriate administrator and he or
she approves. The dean, director or other appropriate administrator shall
approve a staff member's interest in a lease or contract unless he or she
determines that the staff member's personal interest in the agreement will
conflict substantially and materially with the staff member's discharge of his
or her university responsibilities.
(c) This subsection does not affect the
application of s.
946.13,
Stats.
(3) NEPOTISM.
(a) No member of the unclassified staff may
participate, formally or informally, in the decision to hire, retain, grant
tenure to, promote or determine the salary of a member of his or her immediate
family.
(b) No member of the
unclassified staff may, in the supervision or management of another
unclassified staff member who is a member of his or her immediate family, give
preferential or favored treatment.
(4) STUDENT RESEARCH PROTECTION. A member of
the unclassified staff shall inform students engaged in research under his or
her supervision of any financial interest which the unclassified staff member
has in the research activity, including, but not limited to, financial
arrangements involved in the direct support of the activity, agreements made by
the unclassified staff member to obtain data for the research, or agreements
concerning copyright or patent rights arising from the research.
(5) WAIVER. The board may, upon written
request and by action within a reasonable time of receipt thereof, waive any
provision of this section whenever its literal application would be adverse to
the best interests of the University of Wisconsin System or would work an
unreasonable hardship on a member of the unclassified staff.
