Lawmakers set to hold teachers to a higher disclosure standard than themselves

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Or, to their cronies in school regents. Disclosure standards? Great. Lets have them for the legislators and the university system regents, too.  No more paid for research results is a great idea.

In an effort to prevent the perception of any conflicts of interest, the University of Texas System could soon subject its faculty and staff members to more robust public disclosure requirements than lawmakers and even university system regents.

On Jan. 15, UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa issued a memo to the president of each of the system’s 15 institutions that laid out new system policies and included new model disclosure forms for all faculty, staff and administrators engaged in board and business activities outside their universities.

“Over the past several years, at public and private universities, the public trust has been tested when faculty do not completely disclose even perceived conflicts of interest,” Cigarroa told The Texas Tribune.