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Enhancing Data Literacy in Higher Education: Data Entry, Records, and Registrar Teams

Data entry professionals are often the first to spot issues in procedures, identify policy gaps, or flag system failures. Their deep knowledge of front-end operations is invaluable for data governance.

Data Governance Readiness: Addressing Overlooked Data Literacy Skills in Higher Education Roles

In preparing for a formal data governance program, an institution should be aware of and address these gaps through a basic data literacy training program for all employees. A data literate organizational culture is key to the success of a data governance program.

Is Final Final Final Projection the right Final file?

Scenario planning allows your institution to better plan for what happens when things change, and it can be automated to update in near real time if you need. But it's very hard to keep track of all those scenarios unless you have a robust system that was designed for collaboration from day one.

How Metadata Management Tools Support SEM

Implementing a metadata management tool solves the problem of data analysis requiring perusing thousands of fields, hundreds of tables and dashboards, and speaking with different teams to pin down definitions and data origins that live in the mind of a specific person.

How Data Governance Supports SEM

Building transparency in SEM and enrolment forecasting is key to ensuring alignment and collaboration between your stakeholders, and data governance helps to support this transparency while keeping data safe and secure.

The Role of Data Governance in Enrolment Forecasting

While some might argue that a forecast is just data about students who aren’t even real, the forecast is a great place to tie in data governance. In our research, every data governance leader recommended starting small, with a pilot. An enrolment forecast is a great pilot initiative.

Benefits of Mapping Data Lineage

Promote trust in your data with a metadata management tool, which ensures clarity of who is accountable for the accuracy of a particular dataset, who to turn to if questions arise, where a piece of data originates and how its used.

Benefits of a Business Glossary

Without a business glossary, terms can be applied differently and as a result, two reports generated by different end-users may provide different answers to the same question.

Why Version Control Matters to Enrolment Forecasters

Enrolment forecasts are often large and complex models, involving information from databases, models, spreadsheets, and several other places. These models often involve thousands of lines of code and there are many opportunities for human error. I recommend using software to support versioning.