Data Governance
“Quality data, informed decisions.”
Data Governance supports the University’s central mission of teaching, learning, and research. To support the needs of a modern community, institutional data must be accessible, accurate, and must be easily aggregated across the University’s information systems to support the organization’s strategic objectives. The University will maintain a Data Governance Committee on a perpetual basis, with the responsibility of maintaining this policy and the structure of data management at the University.
The responsible use of data means that the right people make the right decision at the right time using the right data. The University recognizes the importance of data-driven decision making and has developed this policy to ensure the greatest use of data while ensuring transparency and accountability. This policy recognizes that institutional data is a strategic asset of the University and promotes a philosophy of governance and stewardship throughout the entire lifecycle of data.
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Information
A source for information on the various committees and task forces involved in Data Governance, listing of the identified Data Stewards from across èßäÊÓƵapp, links to policies and procedures related to data governance, projects in place and future projects considered, progress toward completion of ongoing projects, information and resources for submitting data governance concerns and/or projects to consider, and upcoming changes to one or more of the items listed above.
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Education
What is Data Governance? Why is it important to èßäÊÓƵapp?
- Data as a University asset has value like any other University asset.
- Data serves as a foundation for the information needed by decision makers to inform and guide the decision making process.
- Data serves as a foundation for reporting based compliance and regulation requirements of the University.
- Data is owed by the University with individual Data Stewards responsible for the oversight and regulation of that data.
- Data Governance establishes the policies, procedures, and methods for access to, and the appropriate use of, University owned data.
- Data Governance determines the primary system of record for data elements, as well as helping to coordinate efforts toward superior data quality including data input, data storage, data extraction, reports and visualizations.
- Data Governance is already occurring at the University, but a formal Data Governance program helps to keep “big picture” information needs in focus, by helping to coordinate and refine the already occurring Data Governance processes.
