The intense practice of the College between faculty members and students to collaborate in research yields an excellent start to nurture the culture of research. Faculty and students partake in the authorship decision-making process early in the collaborative endeavor. Collaborative undertakings comprise of agenda and topic advising, problem creation, literature review guidance, instrument design, data gathering, statistical data analysis, presentation, revision, and publication. The faculty members serve as a mentor in the entire research journey of the students, from research proposals to publication. They sign a co-authorship agreement to institutionalize this partnership. 

Often, the faculty members supervise them with their knowledge and expertise necessary to write the entire study for publication in The Journal of Tourism and Transportation Management and for potential submission in a scientific journal. The terms and conditions of authorship credit and order of authorship decisions are based on the collaborators' relative scholarly abilities and professional contributions. To account for possible asymmetry in the relationship, each party agrees to write the first and second drafts of a manuscript. As the second author, the faculty member could agree to supervise the writing process and review the paper's drafts. In other instances, the faculty member will develop the research methodology, and the student will collect the data, enter, and clean the data, and conduct the preliminary statistical analysis. If a student acknowledges losing interest in finishing the writing and publication process, the faculty collaborator may finish the manuscript after extensively revising and reanalyzing the data. Then, the student will take the second or third authorship position.