The Data Made Me Do It [microform] / Robert Zemsky, Ed
- Bib ID:
- 5670857
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- Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia. Inst. for Research on Higher Education
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2000
- 14 p.
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This essay derives from roundtable discussions of teams from seven research universities involved in a Knight Collaborative Engagement on Academic Indicators and Information Systems to Guide Resource Decisions. While colleges and universities are built on the premise that good data, well tested by an often adversarial process of discovery and verification, can yield fundamental truths about how things work and how they ought to, most institutions have yet to learn how to use data strategically. The practice uses data for narrow and parochial causes, often to protect the existing order; seldom is data used as the instrument of strategy, that is, to gauge the capacity of an institution to fulfill current commitments or pursue new opportunities, to understand external markets and the competition for new or existing programs and services, to analyze the opportunities for new ventures through collaboration among departments and centers, or to explore the prospect of even broader collaboration with other colleges and universities. The essay suggests use of a matrix of domains and capacities to support strategic decision making and development of a national data base centered on collective performance to demonstrate responsibility for service to the public. (RH)
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- Sponsoring Agency: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Miami, FL.
- Policy Perspectives, v9 n2 Mar 2000.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
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