?Students will be evaluated annually for satisfactory progress. Students deemed not to be making adequate progress are subject to the policies of the College of Business Administration regarding continuation of their assistantship. Students deemed not to be making adequate progress are subject to the policies of the Graduate School and the College of Business Administration regarding probation and dismissal from the program.
?Students admitted to the program with a relevant Masters degree should pass the comprehensive examination and the supporting field examination within three years of admission to the Ph.D. program.
?Students admitted to the program with an undergraduate business degree should pass the comprehensive examination and the supporting field examination within four years of admission to the Ph.D. program.
?Students admitted to the program with an undergraduate degree outside of business should pass the comprehensive examination and the supporting field examination within five years of admission to the Ph.D. program.
?All Ph.D. students must uphold the University of Missouri-St. Louisæ¯ policies on academic honesty.
?Ph.D. students must uphold the code of ethics defined by the Academy of Management in the creation of all intellectual property (papers, web sites, assignments), whether written for courses or external submissions:
- "... explicitly identify, credit, and reference the author of any data or material taken verbatim from written work, whether that work is published, unpublished, or electronically available."
- "... explicitly cite others' work and ideas, including their own, even if the work or ideas are not quoted verbatim or paraphrased. This standard applies whether the previous work is published, unpublished, or electronically available."
?Each Ph.D. students must take a set of tutorials on plagiarism during the first year of his/her Ph.D. program. These tutorials are available at:
- http://education.indiana.edu/~frick/plagiarism/item1.html
- http://exlibris.memphis.edu/help/plagiarism/index.html
- http://panther.indstate.edu/tutorials/plagiarism
- http://www.lib.sfu.ca/researchhelp/tutorials/interactive/plagiarism/tutorial/introduction.htm
Ph.D. students will notify the Director of the Ph.D. Program in Business Administration (with Information Systems emphasis) upon completion of the tutorial.
?Students are required to present one paper at a regional, national or international conference.
?When Ph.D. students submit a paper without a tenure-track faculty member (from UMSL or elsewhere) as a co-author, they should get the submission approved by an UMSL faculty member (the instructor for the course on which the paper is based or another faculty member). They should also notify the Director of the Ph.D. Program in Business Administration (with Information Systems emphasis) prior to the submission, and indicate which faculty member has approved the submission.
?Students are required to submit one paper, approved by their dissertation advisor, to a refereed journal.
?Students are required to demonstrate competency in teaching during the first year in which they teach in the College of Business Administration. This requirement may be met by successfully completing one or more courses.
?At least two courses of supervised teaching in the College of Business Administration are required of all doctoral students.
?Upon completing course work, students are advanced to candidacy by successfully completing a comprehensive examination in the field of IS and a supporting field examination in the student's chosen area.
?Students are required to take a minimum of 6 dissertation credit hours and to defend a dissertation proposal within one year of advancement to candidacy.
?Students are required to defend orally a dissertation proposal within one year of being advanced to candidacy.
?The degree is awarded upon successful completion and defense of the Ph.D. dissertation. The dissertation must be defended orally within three years after approval of a Ph.D. dissertation proposal.
?Students must satisfy all Graduate School requirements.
