Understanding and Developing a Data-Informed Culture

Published: May 16, 2022

NEW from EDUCAUSE: The Understanding and Developing a Data-Informed Culture Guidebook.

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. The final section includes activities and templates intended for a cross-functional team with representatives from advising, information technology, and data analytics business areas to work on and discuss together.

The intended audience of this asset is stakeholders across the institutional community, particularly staff and faculty involved in advising, information technology, institutional research, and data analytics. Cross-functional collaboration is encouraged via the critical questions, callout boxes, and activities included.