What is it?

Align is The University of Alabama's Data Governance Program and the institutional framework to formally manage university-enabled data assets. This includes standardizing processes, formalizing data definitions, supporting data stewardship, increasing data integrity, and promoting security and privacy. The goal is to maximize institutional collaboration across departmental boundaries and empower UA to make transformative data-driven decisions.

Program charter

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Strategic Framework

Mission
• Data Governance is a collaborative practice that sets expectations for organizational behaviors with respect to making decisions which impact data assets.

Purpose
• To develop processes, structures, and analysis to support data stewardship, data quality, security, privacy, integration, access, and compliance.

Vision
• Data governance will ensure that data is treated as an institutional asset and empower data-based decision-making while protecting individual privacy and institutional security.

Goals
• Improved Data-Informed Decision-Making
• Increased data literacy
• Reduction in duplicative data curation
• Enhanced transparency of data accountability and responsibility
• Improved collaboration

Resources for Data Governance Council and Executive Steering Committee

Want to review previous meeting minutes, slide decks, or data maturity assessment readouts? Click the link below.

Resource Files

Presentations

Meeting minutes

We want to hear from you!

Data Stewards, Stakeholders, Users, and Consumers are encouraged to submit topics for the Data Governance Council to discuss regarding data strategy improvement opportunities. Please follow the link below to submit your ideas.

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