IRB Committee

Institutional Review Board (IRB) for the Protection of Human Subjects

The IRB consists of volunteer staff, faculty, and community members who are the first point of contact when an IRB application is submitted. It is the IRB Chair’s job to determine the level of review (exempt, expedited, or full board review) for the application, NOT THE RESEARCHER. The IRB members possess the requisite knowledge of standards to evaluate protocols for their degree of risk for human participants. All IRB members may also act as consultants with researchers to aid them both in application preparation and with specific aspects of working with human participants, such as informed consent and anonymity issues.

Member Area	Name	Affiliation	Email
Director of Institutional Research	Katherine Coy, Chair	Harper College	kcoy@Harpercollege.edu
Provost Office Representative	Michael Bates	Harper College	mbates@harpercollege.edu
Qualitative Research Representative	Monica Edwards	Harper College	medwards@harpercollege.edu
Quantitative Research Representative	Chris Athanassopoulos	Harper College	cathanas@harpercollege.edu
Local University Representative	Jodi Lampi	NIU	jlampi@niu.edu
Community Member	Deborah Burdsall	Lutheran Home & Services	dburdsall@gmail.com
Ethics Consultant	Philosophy Faculty Member	Harper College