The Data Stewards Committee is a group of 29 individuals from across all academic and administrative areas of the college with day-to-day responsibility for managing data for their respective departments. The purpose of this committee is to provide a regular forum to share data management best practices, ensure data integrity and accuracy, troubleshoot data management issues and to serve as a working group for delivering various data-related, campus-wide projects.
Recently, the Data Stewards have been hard at work on a number of focused projects that were determined to be priorities by the committee members.
Some of the 2013 projects include:
- defining and locating sensitive data for compliance with Massachusetts law
- addressing obstacles to requesting reports
- organizing AARC training
- creating a calendar of each department’s time-sensitive data needs
- producing a Data Standards Manual to map the flow of data in and out of systems, define various data fields, set up protocols to avoid creating duplicate records, determine how to resolve duplicate records that already exist, and define standard for data to improve consistency and integrity
To learn more, contribute to a project, or bring up a new data issue, feel free to reach out to Data Stewards Committee co-chairs Heather Roscoe, Director of Institutional Research, at [email protected], or Deborah Wahlen, Director of the Project Management Office in Technology, at [email protected].
Data Stewards Committee Members
- Lauren Bailey
- John Campoli
- Barbara Carter
- Anna Cottrell
- Izabel DeAraujo
- Louise Deraney
- Diane Dewar
- Jess Faulk
- Patricia Flaherty
- Susan Hacker
- Susan Keller
- Paula Malady
- Joan Martinez Cuerva
- Suzanne Mullarkey
- Sandra Northrup
- Victoria Nye
- Heather Roscoe (Co-chair)
- Brian Shetler
- Gretchen Syverud
- Roslyn Taylor
- Richard Thompson
- Sarah Tyrrell
- Deb (Bernstein) Wahlen (Co-chair)
- Jeanne Wallace-Buckley
- Nicole White
- Christine Williams
- Kelly Williams
- Jason Wood
- Kevin Wright