University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Office of the Associate Provost, Research
Pedagogical Merit - Review Request Animal Care Committee (ACC)
Date:
To:
From: UOIT Animal Care Committee (ACC)
Under the CCAC guidelines, it is the responsibility of the Animal Care Committee (ACC) to ensure that no research or
testing project or teaching program (including field studies) involving animals be commenced without prior ACC
approval of a written animal use protocol. For teaching programs, a course number and an indication of whether
the course has been reviewed with respect to the pedagogical merit of using live animals; institutional or
departmental curriculum committees can be called upon to provide a review of pedagogical merit to the ACC. The
CCAC requests that ACC's work closely with teachers to encourage them to carefully justify any use of animals and
to use alternatives as much as possible. While this should be encouraged, the institution and its departments also
have an important role to play by ensuring that, when curriculum reviews and other individual course reviews take
place, the value of using animals for the various courses is thoroughly examined and documented. This documented
review can then be provided to the ACC.
This letter is a request from UOIT's ACC for you to provide them with a written statement on the
pedagogical merit of the use of animals in the following course:
Course #:
Course Name:
Instructor’s Name:
Species Used (list all):
Thank you for your consideration,
X
Chair, UOIT Animal Care Committee (ACC)
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The above listed course has been reviewed by:
for pedagogical merit. Use of animals in this course has been determined to:
Have Merit
NOT Have Merit
X
Signed by: (Type Name)
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