Consent Forms

Retaining Consent Forms

Copies of consent forms will be retained for one month.

After this time, consent forms will be scanned and shredded.

Scanned copies will be retained for 7 years, in compliance with SPG 604.1.

Investigator Responsibility for Consent Forms

In compliance with Human Subject guidelines, it is the responsibility of the investigator to retain original copies of their subjects' consent forms.

Additional informed consent guildelines are available in the Human Subjects Module of the University's Program for Evaluation in Responsible Research and Scholarship (PEERRS).