The university permits the employment of spouses or other relatives provided that no relative participates in making recommendations or decisions affecting the appointment, retention, tenure, work assignments, promotion, demotion, salary, or working conditions of the other. Children of employees may be hired on a temporary basis and may be supervised by their parent.

Relatives include the employee's spouse, the spouse's parents, children, siblings and their spouses and the employee's parents, children, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, first cousins, nephews, nieces, grandchildren, and their spouses. This nepotism policy also applies to include roommates and other persons with whom the employee may have economic and emotional ties.