MU-CVM Guidelines for College/Vendor Relationships
Disclaimer: The University of Missouri’s College of Veterinary Medicine often joins with its colleagues in
the pharmaceutical, pet and livestock feed, and other related industries to present programs or sponsor
events beneficial to the education of veterinary students. This relationship neither constitutes an
endorsement of products or services offered by these companies nor is the CVM intending to influence
students, faculty, or staff of the college to use those products or services. Decisions on sponsorship of
programs or events are based solely on the educational merit of the material to be presented. As
medical professionals, veterinarians and veterinary students are expected to make judgments based on
scientific evidence.
Policy: The distribution or the sale of products and services on or off the College of Veterinary
Medicine’s (CVM) campus to professional students, staff, and faculty other than those offered by official
University of Missouri entities (e.g. the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Diagnostic Laboratory, and the
MVES Bookstore) must have prior approval by the office of the Associate Dean of Student Affairs. Any
activity that is inconsistent with the mission of the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) or is in
competition with the CVM / MVES bookstore is prohibited. The Dean’s office (with input from the
faculty) reserves the right to stop distribution of any product, educational material, marketing material
or external speaker’s appearance that violates the mission of the CVM.
The CVM requirements for extramural entities to interact with students and/or personnel in the CVM
are:
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Commercial entities agree to these guidelines in writing with the Dean’s office
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The entity must ask the Dean’s office for permission to seek student representatives for their
company. This request will be submitted through the office of the Associate Dean for Student
Affairs.
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The entity must submit a written request to seek/select a student representative to
represent their company on the MU CVM campus.
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Students must be in good academic standing and have at least one semester of
academic experience to be approved.
In order to hold a commercial company-sponsored event with MU CVM students (includes
sponsorship of student organizations), the commercial companies must register with the Dean’s
office a minimum of 2 weeks in advance of the event. The Dean’s office reserves the right to
decline approval. The approval request should include the following:
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A description of the proposed activity.
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Name of external speaker and topic of the presentation.
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Types of products, materials, or services to be distributed or marketed.
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Associate Dean of Student Affairs will review the proposal and forward the materials to
appropriate faculty for advice on approval of distribution of products, educational
materials, marketing materials or invitations to external speakers.
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Appropriate faculty: faculty whose discipline, clinic section or course is directly
related to the subject area involved in or possibly affected by the distribution of
the product, educational materials, marketing materials or external speaker
topics
I__________________________________ representative of Company___________________
agree to the guidelines as stated above this day ____________________ of ______________.
Proposal for commercial company-sponsored event at MU CVM to be reviewed by the Associate
Dean of Student Affairs:
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Describe the activity that will be performed:
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Name of external speaker and topic presentation
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Types of products, materials, or services distributed or rendered