Several years ago while attending a national conference, I listened to a panel of executives from a large software company talk about their wish to promote open sharing of management data about higher education administration at colleges and universities so anyone at a university could do research using the data and publish their results for others to see. Having already led institutional research at a large public university for nearly 30 years at the time, I stood up and told them it was a bad idea for at least two reasons: (1) It ignores that fact that many people do not understand such data and produce nonsensical results from it, which I have personally witnessed. (2) University leaders care about messaging and want the ability to exercise some control over what is made public. In hindsight, I wished I had asked the distinguished panel members how they felt about the idea of their company openly sharing management data with all employees to do research and publish the results for everyone at the company to see.
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