The University of Texas at Dallas is committed to maintaining learning and work environments as free as possible from conflicts of interest and favoritism. This policy addresses those consensual relationships. This policy applies to all University administrators, faculty, staff, and students. Examples include, but are not limited to: supervisor - supervised employee; faculty - enrolled student; faculty committee member - student submitting thesis; faculty mentor β student mentee; coach - coached athlete; Dean - supervised faculty.
Indirect Authority: Authority derived from an informal or indirect relationship which allows for determinations or evaluations affecting the terms and conditions of employment or student status. Examples include, but are not limited to: a student majoring in a particular field who would still be indirectly under the control or influence of a senior professor or individual in the department or school; an employee in the same organizational unit who is under the indirect control of all more senior individuals in the department; a graduate teaching assistant and a non-supervising department faculty member.
Management plan: A written plan developed as provided in this policy that mitigates the conflict and is acknowledged and signed by both parties. Supervisor: A University faculty member or employee who has direct or indirect supervisory, teaching, evaluation or advisory authority over an employee or student. Supervisee: Any person whose terms and conditions of employment or student status are directly or indirectly controlled or affected by a supervisor.
Policy Statement Purpose The University of Texas at Dallas is committed to maintaining learning and work environments as free as possible from conflicts of interest and favoritism. Persons Affected This policy applies to all University administrators, faculty, staff, and students. Policy Prohibited Consensual Relationships - The following consensual relationships, even if a single event, are prohibited: A consensual relationship between a supervisor as defined below and is defined as including faculty members and supervisee regardless of whether the supervisory relationship is direct or indirect, unless the supervisor discloses the relationship in advance and a management plan is in effect; A consensual relationship between a coach or athletic staff and any student athlete or student assigned to or associated with the athletics department, such as interns and student employees, including any coach or student associated with an intellectual competition team, unless waived by the President or his or her designee for good cause.
This prohibition does not apply to a student assistant coach who serves on a voluntary basis unless the student assistant coach has direct or indirect authority, including the appearance of such authority, over a student or student athlete assigned to or associated with the athletics department.
