What happens if a CSP institution and its Institutional Review Board (IRB) elect to pursue approval for participation in the CSP?
IRB approval is required under federal law only for certain federally funded research projects. The CSP is not federally funded. However, as an added measure of data protection, Middlebury College and Northwestern University have sought the approval of their own IRBs for the CSP Representativeness Project. Depending on their local practices, some colleges or universities may still elect to consult their IRBs regarding this project. For example, some institutions may have adopted local policies that subject all projects relating to people or personal information to a review by their local IRBs. For those institutions that elect to gain approval by their own IRB, the CSP Resource Toolkit provides considerable background information and other support that may be useful in this process.
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