This program facilitates more centralized oversight, resource optimization, risk management, and improved communication for data governance across the university.

Program Vision and Mission  

Vision: To establish a robust data governance framework that ensures high-quality, secure, and compliant data management, supporting the university's strategic goals.  

Mission: To implement and maintain data governance policies, standards, and processes that promote data stewardship, optimize resource utilization, and enhance data-driven decision-making.

Guiding Principles and Values  

The Data Governance Program embraces UVM’s “Our Common Ground” statement. As such, the following values guide the program:  

• Protection: Respect the people and communities on whom data are collected with thoughtful stewardship and safeguards for all data.

• Quality: Promote integrity in data use and reporting by ensuring complete and accurate data in and across all systems.

• Agility: Enable innovation and effectiveness in all areas of the institution with consistent, available data that adapt to emerging realities and technologies.

• Communication: In the spirit of openness, provide clear, two-way communication with campus constituents to promote transparency, trust, and a data-informed culture.

• Ethics: Effect justice through inclusive, ethical policies and definitions that lift voices and identities that have been historically marginalized.

• Collective Responsibility: Recognize that data are a shared asset and a collective responsibility that we must all work together to maintain and manage.