How will confidentiality and the security of data be maintained?
The Mellon Foundation and the College Sports Project investigators at Middlebury and Northwestern recognize that building trust in a responsible, professional manner requires a keen understanding of institutional sensitivities about the nature of the data being shared. The CSP has adopted the following confidentiality principles and practices: a. Participating institutions initially submit data files to the CSP Center for Data Collection and Analysis over the Internet using a browser-based upload tool that will provide encrypted transfers. b. Data files will be received at Northwestern’s secure, fire-wall protected Data Center facility and deposited into a special-purpose secure file transfer server. c. All sensitive data temporarily decrypted for processing by the CDCA will be overwritten using a secure delete program. d. The name, address, date of birth, and institutional student ID will be separated, encrypted, stored in a restricted and secure schema, and used only when necessary f
