Research Data

OSU facilitates students' academic and personal success through the gathering of relevant data. Individual offices and departments oversee initial data collection and storage, following applicable laws and policies. This information is not exhaustive but is meant to illustrate what is typical on campus. This section may be updated as needed without notification. If there is a term that you do not know, check our Data Dictionary.

	What Purpose Does the Data Serve
	Inform research conducted about OSU faculty, staff and students Identify potential candidates for research studies

	What Data Do We Collect
	The collection and sharing of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) for research purposes is regulated by federal law and overseen by the Institutional Review Board at OSU. IRB-approved data through research studies, which requires that data is maintained ethically and that studies are subject to audit Graduate Research Assistant Position Employment Data

What Data Do We Collect

The collection and sharing of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) for research purposes is regulated by federal law and overseen by the Institutional Review Board at OSU.

IRB-approved data through research studies, which requires that data is maintained ethically and that studies are subject to audit
Graduate Research Assistant Position Employment Data

	How We Collect Data
	IRB-approved data collection methods may include surveys, focus groups, experiments, data reports through IRA, etc. Consent documents, which include what data is collected and where it is shared, must be reviewed and signed before data is collected; participants may opt out at any time

	Where We Share Data
	Anonymized data may be shared with academic journals or conferences and other researchers, including through open-source databases Please contact irb@okstate.edu if you have questions about how your data is used in human subject research.

	When We Retire Your Data
	Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is deleted as soon as it is no longer needed Anonymized data may be maintained indefinitely in order to support longitudinal studies and validation