Membership

• Director of Sponsored Programs, without vote
• Five members of the teaching faculty appointed by the Assistant Provost for Scholarship and Creative Activity; one from Elon College and one from each of the schools of the University. Appointments to the Institutional Review Board occur in a four-year cycle. In the first year of the cycle, one member will be appointed from Elon College. In the second year of the cycle, one member will be appointed from the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business and one from the School of Communications. In the third year of the cycle, one member will be appointed from the Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education. In the final year of the cycle, one member will be appointed from the School of Health Sciences.
• Three members of the teaching faculty appointed by the Assistant Provost for Scholarship and Creative Activity; one from the biomedical sciences (Biology, Exercise Science, School of Health Sciences), one from the Department of Psychology, and one from Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences
• An additional member of the committee will be named by the Assistant Provost for Scholarship and Creative Activity from the non-institutional population.
• Invited non-members, without vote. If the committee reviews projects involving a category of vulnerable participants or involving issues requiring competence in special areas, it may invite one or more non-members to provide special expertise.
• The committee must always include at least two scientists and two non-scientists. (Any faculty who has had substantive training or experience in a scientific discipline or in a scientific method should be considered a scientist.)
• Committee members who have a conflict of interest regarding a specific project may not participate in the review of such project.