Abstract
Megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, and petabytes. Institutions of higher education continue to collect ever increasing amounts of data. The intriguing challenge is not so much collecting the information as providing useful end-user access. As campus users acquire more powerful computers with easy-to-use interfaces, they have come to expect comparable ease of use and sophistication in their administrative applications, especially when it comes to gaining access to this data.Providing such access to data raises numerous, interrelated issues: What is the impact on data integrity, security, and data administration? Such issues need to be considered, and institutions of higher education need to institute policies in order to encourage and sustain, effective use. In the end, if the information we collect is not accessible, then why collect it?