A Due Process
The thirteen rules of "Extra Salaries and Teaching, Research or Administrative Obligations of Holders of Academic Appointments" stretch across just over two pages, without much explanation.
The new ten-page draft, obtained by The Crimson last week, will fill in the gaps, according to Dean for Research and Technology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Paul C. Martin, who says it is intended to be a "clarification of guidelines."
"The principles are unaltered and the specifics unchanged in most respects," Martin says.
But according to Thompson, while some members of the drafting advisory committee consider the rules virtually unchanged, others see new and larger implications.
"You could say that all we're doing is explaining what the stipulations mean," Thompson says. "I think it is a bit more than that--technology has changed, the world has changed."
Miller, too, sees a bigger trend emerging.
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