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At its meeting of September 24, 2007, the Academic Senate passed the following Sense of the Senate Resolution presented by Senator Kaufman for the Curriculum and Research Committee.

 

SENSE OF THE SENATE RESOLUTION

COMMENDING THE WORK OF THE INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD TASK FORCE

 

WHEREAS,               Senate Management Resolution F05-1 established the Institutional Review Board (IRB) Task Force to review and suggest modifications to current policy and practice in reviewing use of human subjects for research at SJSU; and

 

WHEREAS,               the Task Force was asked to submit a report and suggested policy to the

Academic Senate by the end of the Spring 2007 term; and

 

WHEREAS,               the Task Force met over a period of 18 months to address all aspects of IRB policy and practice, including holding open fora with the campus community; and

 

WHEREAS,               the Task Force has submitted a high-quality, detailed and comprehensive

report and a suggested policy to the Curriculum & Research committee for presentation to the Academic Senate; and

 

WHEREAS,               members of the committee, especially the Chair and Co-Chair, continue to

devote significant time and effort to assist the Curriculum and Research committee in their deliberations over the revised policy; therefore be it

 

RESOLVED              that the members of the IRB Task Force be commended for their

exceptional efforts in producing the report and policy recommendations:

 

Jan English Lueck, Chair, College of Social Science

Michael Gorman, Co-Chair, CASA

Debra David, Academic Senate Curr. and Rsch Committee, CASA

Alena Filip, Graduate Studies and Research

Anne Fountain, Humanities and Arts

Ferdinand Rivera, Science

Mark van Selst, IRB, College of Social Science

Jackie Snell, Business

Pam Stacks, Graduate Studies and Research

 

 

 

Rhea Williamson, Graduate Studies and Research

Bill Coker, Student Representative

 

Approved:                  Curriculum and Research Committee, September 21, 2007

Vote:                           12-0-0

Absent:                       None

Present:                      Kaufman, Schultz-Krohn, van Hooff, Roldan, Yu, Stacks, Buzanski, Romo, Maldonado-Colon, Nance, Cooper, Protho-Jones

Financial Impact:       None