Data Management Planning

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Success Factors for Advising Technology Implementation

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 16:18:31 Z

This institutional readiness assessment tool provides examples of exemplary institutions and discussion questions regarding campus conditions in the successful and quality implementation of advising technology, and to help teams build capacity by considering the extent to which their leadership, culture, and existing technology ecosystem are ready for new advising technology solutions.

Benchmarking IT: A Global Approach

Mon, 20 May 2019 17:25:24 Z

In order to facilitate cross-border comparisons appropriate for the global higher education business, it is necessary to have a way of comparing individual institutions with peers to start a conversation about how services are provisioned, identify areas where performance isn’t as effective as other institutions, and share best practices to develop more effective and efficient IT services.

Research Data Curation: A Framework for an Institution-Wide Services Approach

Wed, 02 May 2018 16:19:30 Z

Universities and colleges should consider an institution-wide approach to developing services for managing and curating research data. This paper identifies service areas and includes a framework for institutions to document current research data curation services and responsibilities.

Institutions’ Use of Data and Analytics for Student Success

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 15:28:58 Z

This report describes a variety of challenges and opportunities regarding institutions’ readiness to expand their use of data across functions.

Sensitive Regulated Data: Permitted and Restricted Uses

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:35:24 Z

The University of Michigan engages in research, teaching, clinical, and business activities that encompass a variety of sensitive regulated data.

Digital Capabilities in Higher Education, 2016: Analytics

Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:08:41 Z

Analytics, which we define as the use of data, statistical analysis, and explanatory and predictive models to gain insight into and act on complex issues, is an issue of relevance and enduring strategic importance to higher education. This report examines the status of analytics maturity and deployment in higher education. The maturity and deployment indices are based on contributions to the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service.

IT Leadership in Higher Education, 2016: The Chief Data Officer

Wed, 16 Aug 2017 15:13:57 Z

As part of its series of studies of the IT workforce in higher education, the EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research (ECAR) conducted a survey of chief data officers. This study sought to identify the characteristics and functions of CDOs.

7 Things You Should Know About How Learning Data Impacts Privacy

Fri, 12 May 2017 15:45:28 Z

Institutional programs and third-party vendors provide an expanding number of instructional tools and services that generate copious amounts of learning data. These data can be combined and shared to improve learning and increase student success, but these opportunities complicate the privacy landscape. Higher education may need new and perhaps more nuanced practices and policies concerning learning data usage and privacy. Although the answers are far from clear, institutions should initiate discussions and governance conversations if they haven't already done so—the only real mistake is to do nothing.

Expanding Research Data Services

Wed, 08 Mar 2017 19:25:52 Z

“More Than Data Management Plans: Exploring New Outreach Opportunities Through Expanded Research Data Services” recounts Georgia State University Library's team and services that support research and data literacy across multiple disciplines involving quantitative, qualitative, business and spatial/GIS data, and “Bigger on the Inside: Integrating Research Data Services in Campus-Wide Research Networks” discusses efforts by the University of Virginia Library’s Research Data Services to collaborate with a growing number of partners to unify expertise and support for data- and computationally-intensive approaches to a wide range of disciplines.

Considerations for Research Data Sharing Setting the Stage for Greater Openness

Wed, 08 Mar 2017 16:44:30 Z

In this paper we explore some of the topics that institutions and researchers should consider as they encourage and enable research data sharing.

Administrative Data in Higher Education

Wed, 08 Mar 2017 22:00:40 Z

This is the third in a series of four webinars focused on data in higher education from the ECAR Working Groups program.

Research Data in Higher Education

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 16:28:41 Z

Research in the 21st century has been and will continue to be increasingly data-intensive, collaborative and technology-enabled. What role does IT play in supporting researchers and their data needs? This engaging webinar will discuss this question through the lens of three working group projects that have focused in this space. February 7, 2017.

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.