"I do believe that this is a radical change in policy that restricts our freedom," he says.
The new regulations, for example, attempt to tackle how the University differentiates teaching outside of Harvard, which is forbidden, from the distribution of academic material, which is permitted.
Both the old stipulations and the revised draft say that anyone at the University with an academic appointment "shall not engage in teaching or research activities or serve as salaried consultant at any other educational institution during the academic year" unless approved by the both the dean of the Faculty and the advisory group.
Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney H. Verba, a member of the advisory group, says Harvard faculty members must be committed to the institution.
"People working for the University owe an allegiance of time to the University," Verba says. "If you're offered to teach at Harvard, that should be your main occupation."
He adds,"there is the specific extent to which one is engaged in an act which would be, in some sense, in competition with what goes on at Harvard."
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