The Data Governance Council is chartered and authorized by the Executive Steering Group to be the key governance body that is responsible for:

• Data governance strategy;
• Policy development;
• Maintaining the program roadmap;
• Initiative prioritization and sponsorship;
• Resolution of issues escalated by the Data Stewards Committee, Data Governance Domain Teams or the UDA Data Governance Team; and
• Ensuring coordination of data governance efforts with related programs, activities, and groups, including information security, analytics enablement, compliance and records management.

As a key component of University Data Governance, the council plays a critical role in ensuring that the university’s data assets are managed effectively and are aligned with strategic objectives, as well as fostering a university culture of data informed decision making and responsible use of data. Members include Associate/Assistant level Vice Chancellor and (Senior) Vice Provost level stakeholders and partners with support from the UDA Data Governance Team.

Council Objectives and Activities

• Adopting and maintaining a data governance strategy and roadmap
• Developing, reviewing and maintaining data governance policies, regulations, rules, processes, standards and guidelines
• Promoting the creation, management and usage of accurate, consistent, secure, accessible and reliable data across the university
• Prioritizing, sponsoring and facilitating execution of data governance initiatives
• Resolving university data governance issues as part of a data issue management process and escalating significant issues to the Executive Steering Group
• Ensuring coordination of data governance efforts with related programs, activities and groups, including but not limited to information security, institutional analytics, analytics enablement, compliance and records management