ARUCC | PCCAT 2026 · Roundtable
Is Canadian Higher Education Ready for Shared Analytics Standards Like MortarCAPS?
What could greater consistency in data definitions mean for reporting confidence and institutional decision-making — and what makes frameworks like MortarCAPS hard to adopt in practice?
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Our key reports (enrolment, retention, completion) use consistent definitions across offices.
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We could reproduce last year's government and board reporting numbers exactly, today.
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Term-over-term enrolment reporting requires little to no manual spreadsheet work.
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When two reports disagree, we have a clear way to determine which one is right.
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Our data definitions are documented somewhere other than in someone's head.
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We know who is accountable for the accuracy of each major data domain.
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New analytics requests build on existing foundations; they don't start from scratch.
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Our reporting process would survive the departure of one key person.
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Leadership trusts the numbers enough to act on them without asking us to re-check.
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If we needed to map our student data to an external standard tomorrow, it wouldn't require archaeology.
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