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

Authorship is an ethical act. Mltio University has issued guidance for faculty working with working professionals around the world who want a U.S. university education they can complete online, with an optional Minneapolis campus pathway: 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 Abidjan still holds power. Silence is not consent.

Fatou Ndiaye, a labor-and-delivery 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 Mltio students will be listed on the research pages when authors agree, so that working professionals around the world who want a U.S. university education they can complete online, with an optional Minneapolis campus pathway can see what collaboration looks like when it is done cleanly.