Data Privacy

2026 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Teaching and Learning Edition

Tue, 12 May 2026 18:19:08 Z

The 2026 EDUCAUSE Teaching and Learning Horizon Report highlights how artificial intelligence, enrollment pressures, policy shifts, and sustainability concerns are reshaping instructional practice and institutional strategy.

Frequently Asked Questions about Cyber Insurance

Fri, 16 May 2025 12:14:00 Z

This document contains advice intended for general information only. To learn how cyber insurance applies to your institution, please contact your institution’s risk management office or chief information officer.

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.

2024 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Cybersecurity and Privacy Edition

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:46:52 Z

The 2024 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of cybersecurity and privacy, and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future.

2024 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Teaching and Learning Edition

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 20:49:21 Z

The 2024 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of teaching and learning, and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future.

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 Report | Holistic Student Experience Edition

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 15:13:05 Z

The 2023 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of the student experience, and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that 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.

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 Students and Technology Report: Rebalancing the Student Experience

Mon, 26 Sep 2022 20:09:41 Z

The results of our survey of US undergraduate students, across 4 areas key areas: Technology Challenges and Solutions, Modality Preferences, Access to Educational Technology and Student Success

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.

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.

Data Privacy Day Resources, 2018

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 19:41:04 Z

These resources are part of 2018 EDUCAUSE data privacy awareness activities and are designed to help data privacy professionals encourage the higher education community to respect privacy, safeguard data, and enable trust.

ACE Letter to FSA on Breach, Information Security Reporting

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:33:50 Z

The American Council on Education (ACE) submitted a letter to the Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) of the U.S. Department of Education (ED) on February 23, 2018, regarding FSA’s 2017-18 breach notification/information security reporting compliance actions against colleges and universities.

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.

Connecting Libraries and Learning Analytics for Student Success

Fri, 11 Dec 2020 16:52:48 Z

To support dialogue both among librarians and between librarians and their educational partners, this document includes a series of discussion questions throughout the text and closes with suggested reading lists, including relevant privacy resources. It is hoped that this report will stimulate discussions about the role of libraries in institutional learning analytics, enable the technical capabilities necessary for libraries to contribute to institutional understanding of student learning, and ultimately enable libraries to employ a new approach to supporting student learning and success.