Training

The Federal government requires that faculty, staff, and students who carry out human subjects research have received training in the ethical conduct of such research before beginning their roles in such projects. To fulfill this requirement, Bard subscribes to the online Human Subjects Research training courses provided by the CITI program. To enroll in and complete the course(s) relevant to your research, please complete the following steps.

Required Training

Note: Training must have taken place within the past four years in order to be valid.
  • Instructions for CITI Program Human Subject Research Training
    1. Go to www.citiprogram.org
    2. If you have already used CITI for any training (even at another institution), use your existing username and password, and select “Add a course…” from your homepage (see #7 below).
    3. If you have not used CITI before, click on the “Register” Link on the home page.
    4. Select “Bard College” from the drop down list of Participating Institutions in Step 1.
    5. It is recommended that your username be a combination of your first and last name (for example, johnsmith or jsmith), or another username that is easy to remember.
    6. Use your Bard email address as the preferred email address.
    7. Select “Add a Course”.
    8. For Question #1 click on “Researchers and Staff”. For Questions 2-4, you can click on “Not at this time”. Then scroll to the bottom of the page and hit “Submit”.
    9. After hitting Submit, the site will bring you to a page with your courses. Click on “Start now” to begin.
    10. Lastly, the trainings have “Required” and “Supplemental” Modules. The Supplemental modules are presented to offer you more information in areas you may find interesting or that may be related to your research; you are not required to take these modules.
    11. Please save your certificate of completion and submit it to [email protected]
  • Instruction for Transferring your CITI RCR training from another institution
    1. Go to www.citiprogram.org
    2. If you have previously completed course work through CITI program while at another institution, you may transfer your completed work to Bard.
    3. Log-on as a registered user.
    4. Once you are on the Main Page, select the red link “Affiliate with another Institution.”
    5. Select “Bard College” from the drop down list of Participating Institutions.
    6. Please submit your certificate of completion to [email protected]

Contact the IRB

Bard's Institutional Review board is made up of faculty from the College plus administrative and community representatives.
Please feel free to contact the IRB ([email protected]) if have any questions about the IRB process or your specific proposal. The current members of the Bard IRB are: Tom Hutcheon (chair), Ziad Abu-Rish, Andrew Bush, Peter Gadsby, Theresa Law, Nicholas Lewis (administrative representative), Mark Moreland (community representative), Monique Segarra, and Theresa Law.
[email protected]