In 2014, Vanderbilt University released a study finding the cost of compliance in the U.S. higher education sector was over $27 billion, $17 billion of which was spent on accreditation-related reporting. It’s no wonder compliance reporting is often experienced as a drain on institutional resources.

What happens when we flip that and frame compliance reporting as a data governance opportunity? What happens when we curate reusable data assets that meet compliance requirements and internal assessment needs?

In this session, I will share how Antioch used accreditation and compliance requirements to develop reusable data assets designed to meet external reporting requirements and save thousands of people hours each year. This session will cover methodology, tools used, and the impact on institutional data governance.

Speaker: Cynthia Cain Fitzgerald

I am a data management professional with 25 years of experience in the Higher Education sector. My particular area of expertise is data shared across enterprise business units and platforms. As a founding member of the AU Data Governance Committee, I chair task groups charged with data definitions and data integrity. As the BI Analytics Manager, I curate an operational data store designed to meet compliance, accreditation, and institutional assessment. In addition to being an avid data evangelist, I am a storyteller, actor, singer, and songwriter with a passion for sharing the stories of women often overlooked by history.