Contents
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Three Categories Of Action
The purpose of this document is to build on the Landscape Analysis by offering a roadmap of potential actions that stakeholders can use to chart both individual and collective responses.
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Strategic Choices: Intro
The second category of actions is more complex, since it relates to decisions that will need to be made specifically based on each individual institution’s mission, culture and values. It also involves the establishment of an explicit process to determine the position that each institution wants to take in regards to specific issues posed by the collection of data and the deployment of data analytics tools.
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Strategic Choices: Algorithms vs. Humans
It is only a matter of time before artificial intelligence further pervades campus decision-making in ways that impact equity, privacy, and allocation of resources.
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Strategic Choices: Quantitative vs. Qualitative Metrics
While institutions may not be ready to abandon the usage of quantitative metrics to evaluate their faculty, they should consider engaging in a genuine debate on the relative weight that they place on quantitative vs. qualitative assessment.
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Strategic Choices: IP Exploitation vs. Knowledge Sharing
The emergence of "big data" and text and data mining has opened up new possibilities for research universities to exploit their IP in profitable ways.
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Update to the Roadmap for Action
Acting in conditions of high uncertainty is particularly difficult. These are actions that libraries, in particular, and academic institutions, in general, could take regardless of the current situation.
