Zachary M. Schrag, “Unchecked Boxes, 2006 and 2010,” zacharyschrag.com, 5 August 2010
This document lists U.S. colleges and universities that
submitted federalwide assurances (FWAs) that did not pledge
to apply federal human subject protection regulations to all
research regardless of funding.
Data for 2006 came from a list of colleges and universities not
voluntarily extending FWAs to all research, provided by the
Department of Health and Human Services in response to a
Freedom of Information Act request by the American
Association of University Professors. I downloaded this list
from the Society for Medical Anthropology website
<medanthro.net> in 2008, though in June 2010 I could not find
it again on that site.
Data for 2010 were extracted from a spreadsheet showing all
FWAs (not just those for colleges and universities) with
unchecked boxes as of 20 April 2010, supplied to me by the
Division of Policy and Assurances, Office for Human Research
Protections. Since the spreadsheet did not differentiate
between institutions of higher learning and other institutions
with FWAs (e.g, clinics, hospitals, health departments,
commercial labs), I searched the spreadsheet for “College,”
“University,” and their abbreviations. In doing so, I may have
overlooked some institutions of higher learning.
I have posted both the 2006 and 2010 lists to my website:
http://zacharyschrag.com/institutional-review-boards/irbdocuments/
I created the comparisons manually, since abbreviations and
names did not always match up on the two lists. By my count,
162 colleges and universities had unchecked boxes in 2006,
and 207 had them in 2010. (While the AAUP list has 174
entries, 12 of these are duplicates.) But rather than being a
simple addition of 45 institutions, these numbers reflect a net
increase amid considerable turnover.
Colleges and Universities With Unchecked Boxes in 2006 and 2010 (n=60)
American U
Auburn U
Bentley U
Black Hills State U
Board Of Regents of the U of Wisconsin
System, U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Boston College
Calvin College
Campbell U
City U of New York & The Rsch
Foundation of the City U of New York
Clemson U
Colby College
College of Wooster
Daemen Coll
DePauw U
Dickinson College
Drexel U
Eastern Illinois U
Eastern Kentucky U
Elmhurst College
Fordham U
Fort Lewis College
Georgia Inst Tech
Gonzaga U
Hamilton College
Harvard U
Hofstra U
Illinois State U
Lesley U
Lock Haven U
Loras College
Marymount U
New York Med Coll
Ohio U
Old Dominion U
Oregon State U
Pennsylvania State U
Purdue U
Reed College
SUNY College of Enviromental Science &
Forestry
Texas Southern U
Trinity U
Trustees of Dartmouth College
U of California, Davis
U of California, Berkeley
U of Chicago (The)
U of Iowa (The)
U of Kentucky
U of Massachusetts Amherst
U Michigan
U of North Carolina
U of Georgia
U of Washington
U of Phoenix
U of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth
System Higher Education
U of Toledo (The)
U Wisconsin-Madison
Vanderbilt U
Western Washington University
Whittier College
Yale U
Colleges and Universities With Unchecked Boxes in 2006 but not in 2010 (n=102)
American College of Integrative
Medicine & Dentistry
American U Armenia
American U Beirut
Ankara U School of Med
Antioch U
Arcadia U
Assumption U
Barton County Community College
Baylor Coll of Dentistry
Bellarmine U
Belmont U
Bethlehem U
Bowdoin Coll
Butler U
Califormia Ste U Channel Islands
California Ste U, Fresno
California U Pennsylvania
Castleton Ste Coll
Central Michigan U
Claremont Graduate U
Coll Holy Cross
College of William & Mary
Colorado College (The)
Colorado School of Mines
Connecticut Coll
Crisp CC
Curtin U Tech
Delaware State U
Eastern Michigan U
Eastern Virginia Med Sch
Emerson Coll
Florida State U
Grambling Ste U
James Cook University
Johns Hopkins U
La Trobe University
Lake Superior State U
Lancaster U
Landmark College
Life U
Linfield Coll
Loughborough University
Lund U
Lyon Coll
McMaster U
Monash U
Monmouth U
North-West U
Odessa State Med U
Pacific U
Pima Community Coll
President & Trustees of Bates Coll
Queen's U of Charlotte, NC
Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst
Rhodes U
Robert Morris U
Rockefeller U
Rutgers, Ste U
Sam Houston Ste U
Samara State Med U
State U West Georgia
SUNY Coll Brockport
Texas Ste U-San Marcos
Transylvania U
Trustees of Princeton U
U Birmingham Med Sch
U Central Arkansas
U District of Columbia
U Houston - Victoria
U Illinois - Chicago
U Maryland Eastern Shore
U Massachusetts Dartmouth
U Massachusetts Lowell
U Med Center, Inc
U Missouri, Rolla
U Montana
U New England
U New Orleans
U No Iowa
U North Carolina Greensboro
U of Mississippi Med Ctr
U of Birmingham
U of Cincinnati
U of Connecticut
U of South Carolina
U Pittsburgh Med Ctr
U So Mississippi
U Texas - Pan American
U Texas Brownsville &
Southmost Coll
U the North
U.S. Naval Med Rsch Ctr
UPMC Northwest
Virginia Ste U
Virginia Wesleyan Coll
Washington Coll
Wesleyan U
West Virginia Ste Coll
Western Illinois U
Williams Coll
Winston-Salem State U
Worcester Polytechnic Inst
York U (Nebraska)
Texas
Colleges and Universities With Unchecked Boxes in 2010 but not in 2006 (n=147)
Agnes Scott College
Allegheny College
Alverno Coll
Andrews U
Appalachian State U
Arizona State U
Ashland U
Augusta State U
Baldwin-Wallace Coll
Bellevue College
Bluefield State College
Brandeis U
Brandman University
Bristol Community College
California State University, Monterey
Bay
Cambridge College
Capella U
Chapman U
Chicago State U
Clarkson U
Clayton State U
Columbia College Chicago
Davidson County Community College
Daytona Beach Community College
DePaul U
Doane College
Dowling College
Emmanuel College
Emory U
Enteprise-Ozark Community College
Fairfield U
Fielding Graduate U
Florida Atlantic U
Florida International U
Fort Hays State U
Franklin & Marshall Coll
George Mason U
George Washington U
Greenfield Community College
Harvey Mudd Coll
Illinois Valley Comm Coll
Illinois Wesleyan U
Indiana U
Iowa State U
Johns Hopkins U Sch Med
Johnson County Community College
Kankakee Community College
Kentucky State U
Kenyon College
Louisiana College
Loyola University Chicago
Manhattanville College
Marian University, Inc.
Marywood U
Massachusetts College Pharmacy &
Allied Hlth Sciences
Mercy College
Merrimack College
Michigan State U
Michigan State University/Kalamazoo
Ctr for Med Studies
Millersville U of Pennsylvania
Mississippi State U
Missouri Western State University
Monmouth U
Muhlenberg College
National - Louis U
Nevada State College
North Carolina Agricultural & Tech U
North Carolina Central U
Northern Essex Community College
Northwest Vista College
Northwestern U
Ohio State U
Our Lady of the Lake U
Pacific Lutheran U
Pacific Northwest U of Hlth Sciences
Penn State College of Medicine
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic
Medicine
Regis U
Robert Morris U
Robert Wood Johnson University,
Hospital Hamilton
Rowan U
Salem State Coll
Samuel Merritt University
San Diego Ste U
San Francisco Ste U
Santa Fe College
Scripps Coll
Sonoma Ste U
South Dakota State University
Southern Connecticut State U
Southwestern Comm Coll
SpringRidge at Charbonneau
St. Lawrence U
State University of New York College
at Old Westbury
SUNY Agricultural & Technical College
at Morrisville
Texas College
Trinity College
Trustees of Boston U
Tufts U
Tulane U
U of Mississippi Med Ctr
U of Alabama
U of Arizona
U of Arkansas Clinton School of Public
Service
U of California Los Angeles
U of California, San Diego
U of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
U of Central Florida
U of Connecticut Hlth Ctr
U of Findlay (The)
U of Florida
U of Illinois at Springfield
U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
U of Illinois College Medicine at Peoria
U of Illinois College of Medicine at
Rockford
U of Indianapolis
U of Maine
U of Miami
U of Minnesota
U of Mississippi
U of Nevada, Las Vegas
U of North Alabama
U of Notre Dame
U of Pennsylvania
U of South Carolina
U of South Dakota
U of Southern California
U of Southern California - Hlth Science
Campus
U of Southern Maine
U of Texas at Austin (The)
U of Texas Houston Hlth Science Ctr
U of Vermont & State Agricultural
College
U of Wisconsin Oshkosh
U Texas Brownsville & Texas
Southmost Coll
University of Southern Indiana
University of Illinois at Chicago
Villanova U
Virginia Polytechnic Inst & State U
Wake Forest U
Wake Technical Community College
Washington State Community Coll
Weatherford College
Weill Cornell Med College
West Chester U of Pennsylvania
Western Illinois U
Western U of Hlth Sciences
Winthrop-University Hosp