What information will be used for initial identification of individual students?
The CSP will collect names, home addresses, dates of birth, and institutional student IDs to serve as a basis for verification of records with participating institutions, for the annual updating of such records, and for use in linking records to those acquired from external databases such as those assembled by CIRP and the National Student Clearinghouse. The personally identifiable information will be stripped and separated from other incoming data, and stored in encrypted form in a restricted schema of the CSP database. The CSP database server will be housed in a secure facility behind layers of firewall protection (see FAQ #11, #13, and #24).
