9月23日 13:08
I am doing some background check on a scholar at our local college who
studied at UCR in the late 1970s. I've found something that puzzles me. While
she studied at UCR as a PhD student, her husband was a faculty member in her
department. Is that considered ethical at UCR? Please shed some light.
Thanks.
University of California, Riverside 的回答：
Thanks for asking. While we can't speak definitively of the policies from 35
or so years ago, we can tell you that as of now the rules regarding a Ph.D.
candidate's dissertation committee includes the following passage:
"To avoid conflicts of interest or the appearance of a conflict of interest,
when domestic partners or spouses are a majority of the faculty overseeing a
dissertation, another faculty member will be added to that committee." You
can find more information on the subject here:
http://graduate.ucr.edu/doctoral.html.
Thus, a graduate student might be in the same department or program as his or
her spouse (though that is very unusual and while not strictly against the
rules is discouraged); however, a spouse can never be the sole director of
research or the dissertation.
