Data Governance

2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Data and Analytics Edition

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:52:13 Z

The 2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report profiles the trends and key technologies and practices shaping the future of data and analytics, and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future.

2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Supporting Agency, Trust, Transparency, and Involvement

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:09:12 Z

This report describes how advancing the future of higher education cybersecurity and privacy will be done by supporting agency, trust, transparency, and involvement among stakeholders.

2025 EDUCAUSE AI Landscape Study: Into the Digital AI Divide

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:58:09 Z

This report summarizes higher education’s experiences related to AI strategy and leadership, policies and guidelines, use cases, the higher education workforce, and the institutional digital divide.

Change With Analytics Playbook

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:17:25 Z

Funded by the Gates Foundation, EDUCAUSE partnered with the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) and the National Association for College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) to develop a guide for increasing institutional analytics capabilities, the Change with Analytics Playbook.

Abstract: Gender Data and Demographics Toolkit

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:50:16 Z

This Toolkit should serve as a resource to help better understand gender data and demographics. Collecting, storing, and sharing such data carries risks that need to be understood and addressed.

2024 EDUCAUSE Analytics Landscape Study

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:18:35 Z

The 2024 EDUCAUSE Analytics Landscape Study summarizes the “current state of affairs” of analytics in higher education.

2024 EDUCAUSE Action Plan: AI Policies and Guidelines

Tue, 21 May 2024 17:22:02 Z

This Action Plan explores a policy framework that spans institutional governance, operations, and pedagogy regarding AI policies and guidelines.

2024 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Unified Data Models

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 18:16:49 Z

This report envisions the preferred future of unified data models in higher education and provides an action plan targeting that future.

2024 EDUCAUSE AI Landscape Study

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:07:24 Z

This report summarizes higher education’s experiences related to AI strategic planning and readiness, policies and procedures, workforce, and its future.

2023 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Generative AI

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 17:39:55 Z

This report describes an ideal future for generative AI in higher education, drawing on the insights of a small panel of teaching and learning higher education experts, focusing on a 10-year timescale.

The Higher Education CPO Primer: A Welcome and How-To Kit for Chief Privacy Officers in Higher Education

Wed, 31 May 2023 14:08:07 Z

The primary audience for this primer is a chief privacy officer (CPO) or a person with primary institutional responsibility for privacy.

2023 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Data Governance

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:49:39 Z

This report describes an optimized future for data governance in higher education, drawing on the insights of a small panel of data and analytics higher education experts, focusing on a 10-year timescale.

Student Data Privacy and Security: A Call for Transparent Practices

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 20:08:54 Z

The results of our survey of U.S. undergraduate students to better understand students’ experiences with institutional data privacy and security.

2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Data and Analytics Edition

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 14:23:31 Z

The 2022 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report profiles the trends and key technologies and practices shaping the future of data and analytics, and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future.

Promising Practices in Holistic Advising Transformation: Incorporating Voices of Intermediaries

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 15:18:41 Z

This report identifies best practices in the use of advising technologies in institutions of higher education. It amplifies a valuable but missing voice in student success and advising transformation research, that of intermediary organizations. Given the breadth of their experiences over time and institutional contexts, intermediaries have amassed a unique and nuanced knowledge base of factors that may influence the effectiveness of student advising and success efforts.

Understanding and Developing a Data-Informed Culture

Mon, 16 May 2022 20:33:43 Z

Understanding and Developing a Data-Informed Culture is a resource to help institutions establish or improve the culture, structures, and processes that enable access to high quality data required to make decisions in support of advising goals.

2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Privacy

Fri, 19 Nov 2021 18:25:49 Z

This Horizon Action Plan is offered to the privacy and higher education communities as an actionable tool to help guide our thinking about tomorrow and to help inspire us to plan and take action today.

The Evolving Landscape of Data Privacy in Higher Education

Fri, 13 Nov 2020 20:19:59 Z

The Evolving Landscape of Data Privacy in Higher Education report explores data privacy management; examines recent privacy legislation and issues that have arisen during the pandemic; and uncovers some of the biggest challenges and most promising paths forward for data privacy.

Supporting Research Involving Controlled Data

Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:34:16 Z

In this presentation we will also share the current project status, lessons learned, and future goals.

Data Protection Primer for Higher Education: Environmental Considerations, Culture, and Practices

Fri, 17 Jun 2016 20:25:10 Z

This paper defines data protection as “the principles and processes for protecting data from corruption, misapplication, compromise, misuse, and loss.” Data protection leverages evolving technology and emerging practices to focus on how to apply the three critical information security imperatives: confidentiality, integrity, and availability.