Includes outside compensated professional or scholarly services performed by a University employee, but does not include income derived solely from passive investments. Provision of compensated outside services is recognized as a legitimate activity unless specifically prohibited by an employee’s contract of employment. A compensated outside activity is not considered appropriate when it interferes with the regular work of the University employee; involves unauthorized use of UNLV facilities, personnel, services, or other resources; subjects other individuals or companies engaged in private practice to unfair competition; violates the general requirements of NRS 281A.400 through 281A.430; or involves a conflict of interest specified by NSHE or University policy that has not been reduced or eliminated. 

Outside professional or scholarly service as outlined by the COI policy shall not interfere with the performance of the duties of any faculty member.

• B contract (9-month) faculty may engage in outside service during contractual time, but this activity must not equate to more than the equivalent of one day per work week (20% of contractual time) for full-time faculty members.  
• Employees on A (12-month) contracts must take annual leave or furlough if providing outside service during the standard work week.  
• Classified staff must perform outside compensated services around regularly scheduled hours.  
   

Any outside activity or interest that may or may appear to, adversely affect, compromise, or be incompatible with the obligations of an employee at UNLV. COI encompasses any situation in which an employee of the University uses, or is in a position to use, one’s influence and authority within the University to advance one’s personal or financial interest, or the personal or financial interest of an individual in the employee’s household; person to whom the employee is related by blood, adoption or marriage within the third degree of consanguinity; or person with whom the employee has a substantial and continuing outside  business relationship. The bias of such conflicts could conceivably inappropriately affect the  goals of research, instructional, or administrative programs. The education of students, the methods of analyses and interpretation of research data, hiring of staff, procurement of materials, and other administrative tasks at the University must be free of undue influence of outside  interests. For the purpose of reporting a COI to federal funding agencies, the federal definition(s) supersede the above definition and will be used to determine which conflicts of interest must be reported.

A significant financial interest that could directly and significantly affect the design, conduct, or reporting of funded research or affect the performance of duties for or by any University employee. 

Anything of monetary value, including but not limited to salary, or other payments for services (e.g., consulting fees or honoraria); equity interests (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership interests); and intellectual property rights (e.g., patents, copyrights and royalties from such rights), whether or not the value is readily ascertainable.

A research, training, service, or other type of project with identifiable objectives and/or deliverables for which external funding either is being requested or has been received.