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

Authorship is an ethical act. Crownshire 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 York 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."