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[weathered]

I don't care. I was rather amused when I found out about it, but wasn't sure if that was permissible from the university standpoint. The person has a website on the other business and a prominent bio. So it's obvious that she is not hiding it from anyone. I'd consider the option if I have a skilled hobby.

But my question is... why do you care?  If you know about the person's other job, chances are they're not making any effort to hide it.   Do you feel that it's interfering with their work in some way?

[litdawg]

Pushing drugs on the side is definitely an illegal second job, no matter how badly paid faculty are (cf CSU San Bernardino faculty member busted for running a drug gang).

I, on the other hand, have a federally mandated exemption from my state's restriction on outside employment: reserve military service.

The framing of this question has holes large enough to drive a tractor trailer through.

[zharkov]

Based upon my limited experience, private schools that are not known for good pay tend not to prevent faculty from moonlighting.   This may include teaching a class elsewhere or working part time in a professional practice.  I can see how a school that pays well would be stricter about how faculty spend their time.

[seniorscholar]

I'm at a R-1 urban public university that has a "no more than 20% of your time" formulation in the faculty handbook and union contract, by which it's evident that they mean "no more than one day a week" since they clearly don't care how many hours a week we spend doing research and teaching prep. There are, however, people in many fields (besides music) who are expected to be doing work in their profession -- the counseling psych people more or less have to be in private practice in order to maintain their credibility; social work faculty are expected to be serving on the board of one of the big social service agencies (private or city), though in both cases I suppose these duties count as "research" even though they're getting paid for them; half of the criminal justice faculty consult/teach at the police academy or for city and state agencies; etc. Oddly, the only case I can remember when people got slapped on the wrist was a group of business school faculty who had a consulting group, though I think the complaint was that they spent too much time off campus (and earned too much money, considering what they were paid anyway???).

[pathogen]

My public U also has a "no more than X% of your time" rule. For faculty it mostly seems to come up for doing outside consulting, though it would cover any other type of employment as far as I know.

[glowdart]

Based upon my limited experience, private schools that are not known for good pay tend not to prevent faculty from moonlighting.   This may include teaching a class elsewhere or working part time in a professional practice.  I can see how a school that pays well would be stricter about how faculty spend their time.

Some that don't pay well are understanding so long as the faculty aren't moonlighting at the grocery store or Starbucks or someplace where they might be seen. 

[oldfullprof]

At SUNY, it's decidedly illegal without permission.  But at S____T (fill that in however you want,) many of the management professors did this.  They often had full-time jobs off campus.