Pursuant the New Jersey Conflicts of Interest Law, N.J.S.A. 52:13D-12, et seq. (NJCOIL), each University officer or employee is required to avoid conflicts of interest in the performance of their official duties. The New Jersey Legislature, by passage of NJCOIL, has provided standards for employee conduct as well as the means for regulatory oversight and enforcement of these standards for all State employees, including employees of University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Specifically the State Ethics Commission (SEC) is charged with the promulgation and enforcement of rules and regulations, and a Uniform Ethics Code, which is applicable to all State employees. NJCOIL also provides that each State agency, including the state's public universities and colleges, shall adopt a code of ethics, which shall be a supplement to the Uniform Ethics Code.

The University is working on adopting its own supplemental code of ethics that will address the University’s particular needs and issues and act as a supplement to the Uniform Ethics Code.  Upon the adoption of the supplemental agency code of ethics by the University and approval by the State Ethics Commission, it will be made available to the University community. 

The Scholarly Capacity Rule became in effect on November 19, 2007, in recognition of the unique nature of the academic setting and the difficulty inherent in defining official duties for faculty and researchers at NJ State Colleges and Universities. The SEC issued a mandate that each University employee review the Scholarly Capacity Impact Statement, which should be read in conjunction with the Uniform Ethics Code and the Plain Language Guide (Guide). Additionally, each University employee is required by the Commission to complete and file an acknowledgment of receipt and certification for these documents.
(To review the Scholarly Capacity Rule and the presentation, please use the links in the Information area on the right of this webpage.)

If you have any questions related to conflicts of interest or employee obligations under the Code, and Guide, please email your questions to: ethics@umdnj.edu

Each chair and department head is responsible for collecting the signed acknowledgments and fowarding them to:

Office of Ethics and Compliance
ATTN: Ethics Programs
1 World's Fair Drive, Suite 3100
Somerset, NJ 08873

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