employment
Could a person be the Dean of a University and the head of a company?
<p>per <a href="https://twitter.com/awmcmu?lang=en" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Andrew W. Moore's self introduction</a>, he is the "Dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University" and the "head of Google Cloud AI" at the same time. Is this legal?</p>

<p>It depends on what you mean by "legal", and the specifics of that relationship. Usually, there is a university policy prohibiting full-time faculty from holding other jobs (setting aside the summer-job exception for 9-month employees, which administrators are not). This would violate such a policy and possibly be grounds for termination – as violation of the terms of the contract. In the typical broad sense of "legal" used here, an act that violates a contract is not "legal". In the case of state universities, it might be a violation of a statute, which is even more clearly "illegal". However, faculty members are generally not prohibited from taking largely symbolic or minimum-work type jobs: the relevant consideration is whether the outside job interferes with their faculty position.
There's no reasonable way to determine the legal status of this particular appointment and side job.</p>

<h2>Yes</h2>

<p>People are allowed to have more than one job.</p>
