Applying for IRB Approval

This page contains information about how to submit a research proposal for review and IRB approval. Be sure you have read and understood the directions on this page before you begin to put your IRB proposal together. When you're ready to actually put your proposal together, download it by clicking on the link below.

After reading the following directions, please download the proposal form here: Application.doc

Directions for submitting your proposal

Note: MAT students please click here for exemption form.

To receive approval from the Colorado College’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) to perform research involving human participants, complete the following form and send it via e-mail to: audiskessler@coloradocollege.edu (Amanda Udis-Kessler, IRB-Chair) and the faculty advisor with whom you are working. In order to receive approval to conduct research in a particular block, you must submit this form (with a confirming email from the faculty advisor) and all relevant information by 2:00 pm of the second Tuesday of the block in which you will collect data (or a previous block). You will receive a response by 5:00 pm on the second Friday of the block. If you have any questions contact Amanda Udis-Kessler (719-227-8177).

Given the problems inherent in doing research within a one-block format, the Chair of the IRB will make every effort to expedite the review of student research proposals. Proposals most likely to receive expedited treatment are those that 1) rely on adult members of the Colorado College community as research participants; 2) entail survey research in which participants clearly volunteer to participate or entail observation of naturally occurring and public behaviors; 3) entail no deception of the participants; 4) entail no or only minimal risk of harm to the participants; and 5) entail procedures to assure the confidentiality of the participants' identities. Neither the IRB nor the Chair can guarantee that any project will receive expedited review. Researchers should make every effort to submit their proposals by the second Tuesday of the block and should not expect to begin data collection before the second Saturday of a block.

This page was last updated on June 4, 2008
for more information contact Amanda Udis-Kessler via email (audiskessler@coloradocollege.edu)

PROTECTION OF HUMAN PARTICIPANTS IN RESEARCH