Faculty profiteering stopped
By Yeoshin Kim
Summer Forty-Niner
Cal State Long Beach
has a new university policy that prohibits faculty profiting from required
course materials effective this fall semester.
The Academic Senate
and CSULB President Robert Maxson approved the measure titled "Avoidance
of Conflict of Interest in the Assignment of Course Materials" on July
7.
"There was no critical
incident prompting this decision, but with the changes in technology the
Senate revisited the issue," said Gary Reichard, associate vice president
of Academic Affairs.
The key points of
the policy state that faculty are prohibited from profiting personally
from the local sale of course materials, except for materials that are
published for a wider market.
University employees
may not directly sell textbooks and other assigned readings to students.
And all fees charged in connection with a course must be collected by the
CSULB Business Office.
Course packets may
be sold at Forty-Niner Shops and off-campus copy stores, however faculty
memebers can not profit for the preparation of a course packet. Course
packets prepared at the Forty-Niner Shops will include the fees required
for copyright material. However, when prepared at an off-campus copy center
the faculty member must assume the copyright costs and legal responsibilities.
Faculty members view
this university policy as a method to “limiting the way people can profit
from their own students,” said Lee Brown Chair of the Journalism
department. Dr. Brown says faculty members who make a profit from
their own students is a nationwide common practice, but it is clearing
taking advantage and a forcing of students.
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