U15 Data Exchange
Established in 1999, the U15DE facilitates comparative analysis and benchmarking. The U15 data exchange (U15DE) is a data exchange consortium made to facilitate comparative analysis and benchmarking for Canada's top universities. Comprising the institutional research directors at each of the U15 institutions, the U15DE would, through the formal and informal exchange of datasets and information, support the Executive Heads in the development and enhancement of the distinctive mission of the institutions. The U15DE was modelled after a similar data exchange consortium of leading American research universities.
The U15DE started in 1999 as the G10DE when a voluntary and informal group of Executive Heads from 10 Canadian research universities agreed to create a data exchange consortium: the Group of Ten Data Exchange (G10DE). The G10DE, comprising the institutional research directors at each of the G10 institutions, would, through the formal and informal exchange of datasets and information, support Executive Heads in the development and enhancement of the distinctive mission of the institutions.
"The U15DE is well underway and has proven to be efficient in creating and maintaining the data resources necessary to construct inter-institutional and inter-jurisdictional comparisons. Included in this paper are topics related to the development of this consortium: the U15 background, the organization of the U15DE, the content of the exchange, the roles of the Data Exchange Coordinator and Chair, its current evaluation and finally, advice for starting a data exchange consortium."
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