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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.
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.
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.