A state audit this year admonished a Florida State College at Jacksonville  administrator, saying his second job as a senior vice president at a New Jersey  college where he sold a product was a potential conflict of interest.

Donald Green worked as a temporary senior vice president at Essex County  College in Newark, N.J., from fall 2010 through spring of 2011 while also  serving as FSCJ’s executive vice president for instruction and services.

The contract with Essex began shortly after Green sold the college a textbook  program, called Sirius, funded by a federal grant and led by FSCJ.

Florida statutes say that “no employee should have a contractual relationship  with any business entity that is subject to the regulation of, or is doing  business with, an agency of which he or she is an officer or employee,” according to the audit.

The state told the college in its January audit to ensure that conflicting  employment or contractual relationships are prohibited.