Building a culture that fosters data quality is the job of everyone in your higher education institution, from front line staff in various functional departments such as admissions and advancement...
March 13, 2019
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February 27, 2019
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Data quality can be improved at any organization including higher education institutions. And it is a team effort with thoughts from many. To do this, we suggest getting individuals into a room...
February 20, 2019
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Internal communication is a key process in the success of a data quality program at a higher education institution. To build trust in your data you want to be as transparent as possible regarding...
February 09, 2019
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Data dominates on EDUCAUSE’s annual list of the “top 10 IT issues” for higher education institutions as 5 of the issues are about data. Focus this year is about achieving trusted data and putting...
January 30, 2019
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Data quality is an important piece to data governance and thus important for a higher education institution. During our various webinars and blog posts we have mentioned several thoughts that we...
January 22, 2019
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Data quality is an important component of data governance at a higher education institution and includes people, processes and content. This blog post is about the various content (issues,...
January 16, 2019
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Who owns the data at higher education institutions? Information Technology (IT) Department or the specific functional department like Admissions, Human Resources, Institutional Research or...
January 02, 2019
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Data quality is a key component of data governance. This post lists impacts of poor quality data and identifies sources of poor quality data. If you can’t get traction to establish a formal program,...
December 05, 2018
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Data governance is an institutional priority and it is critical to give all employees the resources and training to achieve this priority as soon as they walk in the door.
The on-boarding or...
November 07, 2018
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So, you don’t trust your data. Well, you need to do something about it. You need to create a culture for having trusted data and have effective data governance in place. Don’t blame your data....