Procedures for the Completion of the Annual Report on Outside Professional Activities
2007 Annual Report on Outside Professional
Activities
The University requires ALL full-time
faculty and full-time exempt staff to complete an annual report
on outside professional activities.
The form must be completed even if no outside activities were performed.
Instructions
for faculty, exempt staff and unit heads, as well as access to the
on-line Outside Professional Activities (OPA) report, are located
at http://www.president.umd.edu/reports.
The
report covers activities between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2007.
OPA should be completed by March 15, 2008.
Paid Professional Service to Maryland State Agencies
All paid professional services to Maryland State Government Agencies
requires prior advanced permission.
Maryland Government Agencies are State of
Maryland governmental agencies or units, including
other USM institutions. They are not city, county,
other state or federal government agencies.
Except for teaching at other USM institutions, the Request
to Conduct Paid Professional Service for Maryland State Agency is
submitted to the unit head, who forwards it to the the President's
Representative (For faculty this is the Provost and for staff it
is the Director of Human Resources).
Faculty who plan to teach for another
institution should submit a letter of request to their unit head, who
forwards it through the Dean to the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs.
