"Planning, oversight, and control over management of data and the use of data and data related sources."
- Definition from the Data Management Association International (DAMA)
Mission:
Several data systems1 exist which the university community can use to inform decision-making, planning and reporting. The mission of the Data Governance Council (DGC) is to provide oversight to these data systems to ensure data integrity, best practices in data management, reporting standards, information consistency, and security access. In addition, the Data Governance Council is charged (see Appendix A for official charge) with identifying data and reporting needs related to strategic planning priorities and the sharing of business knowledge across divisions to ensure data and reporting optimization related to the latest business practices within units. The Data Governance Council provides compliance with the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) requirements related to institutional data used for accreditation.
Data Governance Principles:
1 Data systems encompass 黑洞社区 ERP system-Ellucian Banner, non-Banner Enterprise systems and managed data systems including Business Intelligence and Predictive Modeling (BIPM), University Assessment Data Storage (UADS) and External Reporting Data (ERD). While largely dependent upon transactional databases (e.g., Banner), managed data systems are curated data configurations designed for ETLs, data quality audits, reporting and statistical analysis, and include data customizations, aggregation, imputation, forecasting, simulations, and AI related machine learning.