Institutional Review Board
CCBC encourages and supports the learning outcome assessments and institutional effectiveness studies of students, faculty, and staff of the College. Pursuit of scholarly work and research may involve the use of human subjects for data collection and analysis.Our Institutional Review Board (IRB) reviews proposals involving human subjects to ensure that the rights and welfare of human subjects are protected; that risks have been considered and minimized; that the potential for benefit has been identified and maximized; and that all human subjects are volunteers who choose to participate in research only after being provided with legally effective informed consent. CCBC insists that all research is conducted in an ethical manner and in compliance with established standards. Those individuals seeking to conduct such research at CCBC or using CCBC students, faculty, staff, or resources may not solicit subject participation or begin data collection until they have obtained clearance by CCBC’s Institutional Review Board.
The IRB does not assume the role of evaluating the soundness of the proposed research study, the merits of the research design nor the potential contribution of the research to scholarly literature. IRB does have the responsibility to evaluate the usefulness of the study to CCBC and to evaluate the time (including class and student time as well as staff time and resources) that CCBC might be asked to contribute.
IRB approval of a study does not constitute CCBC sponsorship of the study—it is up to the researcher to arrange any needed volunteer participation of faculty, staff, and/or students.