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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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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Jim Walery
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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....
June 26, 2018
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Jim Walery
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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union (EU) law that took effect on May 25, 2018. This regulation provides greater protection to an individual’s personal information and...
May 23, 2018
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Jim Walery
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A data dictionary is a repository of definitions of the data you use to make decisions at your higher education institution. This post will suggest, gathered from our experience, the preferred way...
May 16, 2018
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Jim Walery
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There are many paths to create data governance content for higher education institutions. Creation of the path should be determined by institution priorities, size of institution or amount of...
May 11, 2018
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In higher education there are many types of content for data governance. This blog post will mention the 12 areas of content that we have learned about from our experience in providing data...
February 20, 2018
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Brian Parish
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Data governance needs to provide trust in the data for it to be successful. Higher Education institutions need to trust their data so that they can make effective decision making. But building...