What is the CSP database and what is the purpose behind its creation?
Ideally, students who participate in intercollegiate athletics are similar to their classmates from the standpoints of academic preparation, educational outcomes, and participation in the life of the campus community. The CSP database will assemble data from participating institutions on characteristics of all students in particular cohorts tracked longitudinally and supplemented with data from other sources. The CSP database will consist of two separate schemas: one with personally identifiable information, and the second for research and analysis. The CSP database research analysis schema will not include individual student identifiers all names, addresses, dates of birth, and institutional student IDs provided by the participating institutions will be stripped from record-level student data, encrypted, and securely stored (see FAQ #9, #11, #13, and #24). The Mellon Foundations primary purpose in creating the CSP database is to enable participating colleges and universities to quanti
