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Welcome to the homepage of the SJSU Academic Senate's Institutional Review Board Task Force.

An important site for IRB Task Force members to visit is the IRB Forum. I have gathered (and updated) many of the links from their links pages, but they have a discussion forum on IRB issues and concerns.

Here is an interesting article on the sociology of IRBs from Inside Higher Ed.

 

I dream of the intellectual who destroys evidence and generalities, the one who, in the inertias and constraints of the present time, locates and marks the weak points, the openings, the lines of force, who is incessantly on the move, doesn't know exactly where he (sic) is heading nor what he will think tomorrow, for he is too attentive to the present; who, wherever he moves, contributes to posing the question of knowing whether the revolution is worth the trouble and what kind (I mean, what revolution and what trouble), it being understood that the question can be answered only by those who are willing to risk their lives to bring it about."
                                                 (Michel Foucault)

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