The purpose of the data governance committee is to establish methods and an organization with clear responsibilities and processes to standardize, integrate, protect, and store institutional data. The data governance committee seeks to encourage desirable behavior in the valuation, creation, use, storage, archiving, and deletion of information, all to ensure data quality control, integrity, and security.
In order to ensure accurate reporting and effective use of data for decision making, the Lincoln University data governance committee will manage the quality, consistency, usability, security, accessibility, and availability of institutional data.
Data Governance Committee: The committee will consist of members from OIERP, IT, and various data stewards.
Data Custodian (OIERP & IT): Data Custodians will execute approved access rights to data they oversee. In addition, Data custodians implement controls to ensure the integrity, security, and privacy of institutional data. Data stewards and data custodians work closely to ensure that their organization complies with the enterprise data management standards/policies and that critical data-related issues are escalated to the data governance committee in a timely manner.
Data Reporter: Data reporters are department power users. Their job requires them to access, manipulate, and analyze institutional data to provide information to decision-makers.
Data Steward: Data Stewards are subject matter experts in their respective data domains. Some of the data stewards’ responsibilities are data entry, defining data definitions, data security requirements, data privacy requirements, allowable values, and data quality requirements. Data stewards also play a critical role in certifying data quality for their specific business domain/area.
