Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, November 30, 1993 TAG: 9311300164
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: ALLISON BLAKE STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Recognizing that faculty's scholar status provides many outside opportunities, Radford administrators Monday asked the Board of Visitors to approve the moonlighting policy to assure that outside work advances a professor's professional life.
"Full-time employees owe the university the major part of their commitment," said Charles Owens, vice president for academic affairs.
Owens said he pressed for the policy to try to order an admittedly subjective process.
Many faculty members take on a variety of outside projects. This work should advance their scholarly position, said university President Donald Dedmon.
"When they do things that are just repetitive, that seem best designed just to make extra income, then we get a little worried," he said.
"You can't serve two masters. The problem is, we end up preaching to the choir. The people who are conscientious will gladly tell you."
Nevertheless, he said, the idea is not to create an atmosphere of "don't ask, don't tell."
In other action at the Board of Visitors' quarterly meeting, a university master plan, 10 months in the making, was approved. The $50,000 study, conducted by the Northern Virginia firm of Sasaki & Associates, includes five projects approved for public bond funding last year. Construction for the New College for Global Studies, expected to cost more than $20 million, also is included in the plan.
The master plan is a wish list, approved by the board "to show an approval of the future direction of the university," said campus spokeswoman Debbie Brown.
Memo: shorter version ran in the Metro edition.