The university will provide appropriate access to administrative information for its employees without unnecessary difficulties or artificial restriction. Source Data Administration Subcommittee of the Administrative Computing Advisory Committee. This policy applies to all employees of the university and to all administrative information regardless of the form of storage or presentation. Background University data are institutional assets and are held by the university to support its fundamental instructional, research, and public service missions.
Innovative management is largely dependent on data that are freely available.
The intent of this policy is to assure that the data are easily accessible for the faculty, staff, and management of the university. Policy Open access to administrative information will be provided to employees for the support of university functions. Any request to restrict employee access must be documented to Data Administration by the designated data trustee. Any employee or nonemployee denied access may appeal the denial to Data Administration. Data Administration is the Trustee for all data elements not specifically assigned to another trustee.