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What's Data Governance got to do with it (Power BI)?

While the initial lift of getting data set up for Power BI is going to be time-consuming, you'll get compounding returns as developing new dashboards gets faster. What happens with and without a centralized metadata management tool when an analyst is asked to transfer an existing report to Power BI:

Looking Back at AI-Cademy and Looking Ahead to Re-University

Institutions, faculty members, and students have learned where AI can assist and where it isn't ideal. This technology is advancing so fast that what we knew yesterday could change tomorrow. But it's likely here to stay, so we should figure out how we leverage it and where we don't.

Announcing HESA x Plaid: Data with Purpose

Today we are announcing a new partnership with Higher Education

Building a Data Governance Team from Within: Matching Data Governance Roles to Existing Employees

Data governance is already happening at your institution, whether or not you have an explicit framework. As Bob Seiner, non-invasive data governance expert puts it, your “Data stewards are already in the building,” you just need to know where.

Data Literacy & Governance for Leaders, Strategic Planners, Operations and Financial Managers

In higher education, leadership and management steer their institutions toward success. However, there are data literacy skills that can get overlooked by those in leadership, strategic planning, operations, and finance roles.

The Importance of Data Literacy Service Planning in Institutional Research

Without a strategic service approach for information or institutional research offices, users are left to wander through a vast collection of data in hopes of finding the right metric, at the right aggregation level.

Social tagging: A Data Literacy Quick Win for Large Organizations

Software providers often promote tags as way to help users find content. Yet many data analysts and institutional research administrators, including myself, are quick to dismiss them. But focusing on the messiness of end-user assigned tags ignores their function as a data literacy learning tool.

Using Technology in Academic Advising to Empower Students

As technology shapes how we find information, I wanted to know what social media says about academic advising. Most Tiktok videos tagged with #academicadvising were negative. How can institutions use technology to change the story told on social media?

Beyond the Strategic Enrolment Plan: Examples of Target Setting Processes in the Frameworks

Aside from assessing the weight-bearing capacity of the framework, introducing a new process or task for strategic enrolment management differs between the four frameworks. In this post we’ll review how institutions who want to implement enrolment targets would do so in each of the frameworks.

Beyond the Strategic Enrolment Plan: Framework Challenges & Knowing when to Restructure

When SEM becomes a struggle beyond a single process, or when multiple targets seem unachievable, the framework may no longer be able to bear the weight the institution requires.