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RE: Data Literacy Assessment

Posted By Olivia Kew-Fickus 04-04-2025 03:20:36 PM
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Kristin, We haven't used the links below but we are currently in the middle of a "data literacy boot camp" engagement with The Data Lodge, who are data literacy training-of-training specialists. Among other services we receive for our engagement with them is a curated list of publicly available ...

RE: Institutional Student Survey Data Sharing Policy

Posted By Olivia Kew-Fickus 02-17-2025 02:03:39 PM
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We have been slowly centralizing surveys (not just student but as faculty, staff, and alumni) in our IR office over the past five years. There was a lot of resistance at first, but as we have made our survey expertise available to people and helped them to run and analyze their surveys, we have found ...

RE: Professional Development Inquiry

Posted By Olivia Kew-Fickus 10-22-2024 02:31:52 PM
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David, welcome to the group. This may not be what you would look, as it likely wouldn't be in person, but Nicola Askham in the UK is an extremely good data governance trainer. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolaaskham/ I worked in the UK for a long time and can confirm that the outlines of DG ...

RE: Have you attended Gartner's Data & Analytics conference? Worth the price of admission?

Posted By Olivia Kew-Fickus 08-26-2024 06:56:27 PM
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I went to both Gartner and CDOIQ at MIT this year. In my view, both were excellent, but in very different ways. Gartner is a choreographed tour-de-force. All the pieces fit together because all the presentations are by Gartner experts and they are all drawing from the same playbook. You can also ...

Handshake

Posted By Olivia Kew-Fickus 04-17-2024 10:51:00 AM
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Colleagues, I know many institutions use the career services provided by Handshake. Have any of you reviewed and have any comments on the privacy policy Handshake provides? Privacy policy Handshake remove preview Privacy policy Welcome to Handshake, a career ...

RE: Data Governance Vendors

Posted By Olivia Kew-Fickus 01-20-2023 04:26:00 PM
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Hi all, The various systems listed in Teguh's original email (list below) are all relatively expensive and complicated systems. Alation, Collibra, IBM Data Governance Informatica, SAP Master Data Governance, Etc. (I would add data.world to that group.) We were trying to decide ...

RE: Analytics, IR, and BI in Your Organization Poll

Posted By Olivia Kew-Fickus 10-20-2022 11:43:00 AM
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Hi David, At Vanderbilt University those functions are all combined and we report to the chancellor's office. Several years ago we were in enrollment management, and then moved to provost's office, and now at chancellor level. This has greatly broadened the types of data we work with. Olivia Kew-Fickus ...

RE: Chief Data Officer - what's your experience?

Posted By Olivia Kew-Fickus 04-19-2022 04:37:00 PM
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Hi Gail, I was named Chief Data Officer at Vanderbilt University in the summer of 2021, leading the Office of Data & Strategic Analytics within the Office of the Chancellor. I had previously been Assistant Provost for Planning and Institutional Effectiveness in the Office of the Provost. ...

RE: Where is data governance located on your campus?

Posted By Olivia Kew-Fickus 04-14-2022 12:43:00 PM
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Hi Melissa, At Vanderbilt we were just (February 2022) able to hire a dedicated Data Governance Program Director into our Data Governance & Solutions team. Having a dedicated person has already been transformational. DG is no longer something done at 3pm on Friday afternoon and our work is accelerating. ...

RE: Feedback on FERPA to the Department of Education

Posted By Olivia Kew-Fickus 02-24-2022 12:58:00 PM
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Hi Svetla, I agree with all the queries / comments people have made. I would like to add one more that I haven't noticed raised quite like this. It would be helpful if a more concise definition of "education record" could be developed. FERPA was passed in 1974, when education records ...