Our focus
You will find a world of data resources, peer connections, and learning opportunities when you join Higher Education Data World!We provide a product-neutral environment of collaboration, networking, and sharing of best practices focused on the entire project lifecycle including justification, planning, design, development, support, and growth. Dive into our rich content spanning functional, administrative, and academic data ranging from operational, financial, and human resources to admissions, financial aid, and student success. Here are just a few of the topics you will find in our four overarching themed areas!
Data Strategy and Culture
- Recognition of the importance of data in decision making
- How to build leadership and executive support
- The rising role of the Chief Data Officer in higher education
- Roadmaps and project leadership skills for data initiatives
- Various organizational structures, centralized and decentralized, to support the use of data within the organization
- Industry trends and valuable peer perspectives
- Data modeling, integration, and orchestration
- Privacy and security solutions
- Data and development operations (data ops and dev ops)
- Data storage and architecture solutions including warehouse, data lake, data vault, operational data store and more
- Architecture platforms including cloud-based, hosted, and on-prem installations
- Data science, AI and machine learning
- Statistical and predictive modeling
- Data storytelling and ethical use of data
- Institutional research, KPIs and benchmarks
- Content delivery and business intelligence solutions including dashboards, visualizations, content aggregation and portals
- Self-service data access and business intelligence
- Governance structures and best practice
- Data stewardship, custodians, subject matter experts,
- Policies, compliance issues and accountability
- Data access, security, and privacy
- Data literacy and training
- Data quality, master data management, metadata and data lineage