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Data Governance

The purpose of the WVU Data and Analytics Governance Program is to develop University-wide policies, procedures and community members that ensure data assets and associated analytics meet certain criteria within and across the University’s systems.

Key Objectives

  • Enhance data and analytics accuracy
  • Implement data transparency
  • Increase data timeliness
  • Improve protection of sensitive data
  • Fund strategic initiatives with gold source data
  • Comply with regulatory standards, federal laws and organizationally specific rules

Key Benefits

  • Improved strategic decision-making by providing stakeholders with relevant data and analysis
  • Reduction in risk from data and analytics misuse or misunderstanding at the University level
  • Centralized management of data and analytics at the University level