Reporting with Confidence: Data Lineage for Outcomes and Performance Funding
When government reporting deadlines hit, can your institution trace every metric back to its source — and defend it?
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About this session
Outcomes reporting is only as strong as the data behind it.
Performance-based funding and government outcomes frameworks have raised the stakes for institutional data significantly. Metrics like retention, completion, and transfer success now carry direct funding implications — and regulators and auditors increasingly want to know not just what the number is, but where it came from.
Most institutions can produce the number. Far fewer can trace it — through the ETL jobs, warehouse transformations, and reporting logic that shaped it — quickly and confidently. That gap is where risk accumulates.
In this session, Andrew Drinkwater will show how modern data lineage tools change what's possible for outcomes and performance funding reporting: automating the audit trail, surfacing the business rules behind each metric, and making it practical to keep documentation current as systems and state frameworks evolve.
What we'll cover
Who should attend
Designed for Institutional Research, IT, and Registrar teams at colleges and universities with government reporting obligations — particularly those subject to performance-based funding models or state outcomes frameworks. Relevant for both U.S. and Canadian institutions navigating accountability reporting requirements.
Your presenter
Co-founder & President, Plaid Analytics
Andrew has 20+ years of experience working with higher education data environments — including Banner, Colleague, and PeopleSoft. He leads Plaid Analytics' work on data governance and institutional intelligence, and has helped dozens of institutions move from static documentation to live metadata management. Andrew will take questions from attendees at the end of the session.