GMU Faculty Will Co-Author With Global Students When the Student Did the Intellectual Work

Authorship is an ethical act. GlobalMind University has issued guidance for faculty working with ambitious learners on every continent who want one accelerated digital campus rather than a local classroom they cannot reach: a student who designed, analysed or wrote must be credited; a student who only collected data under instruction may be acknowledged rather than listed, depending on contribution.

The guidance follows common scholarly standards and names power. A supervisor in a different country from a candidate in Thiès still holds power. Silence is not consent.

Awa Diop, a public-health nurse and research student, said the document would have helped an earlier collaboration. "I needed a rule I could point to, not a feeling."

Disputes go to the Research Office, not to informal pressure. Retaliation against a student who raises authorship is misconduct.

"global students are colleagues in the making," said the Research Lead. "We will treat their sentences as theirs."

Workshops will run this term. All supervisors of dissertations must confirm they have read the guidance.

Published papers that include GMU students will be listed on the research pages when authors agree, so that ambitious learners on every continent who want one accelerated digital campus rather than a local classroom they cannot reach can see what collaboration looks like when it is done cleanly.