POLICY
Financial
support for students re-locating to laboratories outside
of Drexel University College of Medicine during their
course of study.
Effective:
January 01, 2003
Re-location of faculty and their laboratories to new
institutions is a fact of academic life. Often senior
graduate students move with their mentors to new institutions
to complete their research projects but remain a part
of the Office of Research & Biomedical Graduate Studies Program at Drexel
University College of Medicine and return to defend
their dissertation and graduate according to the policies
and procedures of the Office of Research & Biomedical Graduate Studies Program.
The Office of Research & Biomedical Graduate Studies Program is willing to
support this practice provided the student is amenable
to the move and continues to fulfill program requirements
(e.g. course requirements, yearly committee meetings,
etc.), the student fulfills a residency requirement
(3 years), and the mentor can continue to provide financial
support for the student’s research including money
for supplies, purchased services and necessary equipment,
as well as stipend and benefits (including health insurance
and tuition) for the student at the levels established
for all other graduate students in Biomedical Graduate
Programs at the Drexel University College of Medicine.
Such support for the duration of the student’s
study must be verified by a written commitment from
the mentor, co-signed and guaranteed by the new institution.
The Associate Dean of Office of Research & Biomedical Graduate Studies (in
consultation with the Vice Dean) and the director of
the student’s program must review the proposed
plan for the student and the guarantee of support before
any student re-location is approved.
In
some cases, students may not be able to relocate to
the mentor’s new university and may elect to complete
their dissertation project under the mentor’s
direction, while remaining at the original institution.
Such a request can only be approved if the specific
requisites detailed below are fulfilled:
1)
The student must be within one year of completing his/her
research;
2)
A faculty member in residence at Drexel University College
of Medicine must accept responsibility for on site direction
of the student’s research. Specifics of that arrangement
must be agreed to by the two faculty members and must
be in writing and approved by the student’s thesis
committee;
3)
Financial support for the student’s research must
be included in the arrangement; this includes money
for supplies, necessary equipment, and full salary and
benefits (including health insurance), and tuition for
the student at the levels established for all other
graduate students in Biomedical Graduate Programs at
Drexel University College of Medicine.
The
Associate Dean of Office of Research & Biomedical Graduate Studies (in consultation
with the Vice Dean) and the director of the student’s
program must review the plan for the student and the
guarantee of support before any such arrangement is
approved.
