Data is the most powerful resource in the digital era. For colleges, it is a useful tool to inform, engage, monitor, and evaluate students throughout the student lifecycle. With technology and educational trends rapidly changing, healthy data can also help higher ed institutions gain more insight and make better on-campus decisions, such as constructing new teaching methods, including more communication channels, and eliminating time-consuming paperwork and internal processes, etc.

However, before you can do any of this, you need to provide an effective flow of information across every department. Fortunately, you don’t need large data centers, supercomputers, or a dedicated IT department to improve internal communication. All you need is real-time access to healthy data across your IT infrastructure.

With AMSA Connect’s integration relationship management platform, you can automatically authenticate raw data, streamline data flow, and centralize internal communication by seamlessly integrating all your inter-department systems.

Why Colleges Need Healthy Data in the Digital Era?

Data is an integral part of research and communication. Every department in colleges collects data for different purposes, such as enrollment information, class performance, extracurricular activities, etc. Before departments analyze this data, they must determine its authenticity before they can communicate information internally or externally.

Healthy data is clean, structured, deduplicated, and reliable data that consistently flows across all sources. When college departments don’t have access to healthy data, they cannot communicate with each other effectively, especially with most paperwork processes shifting online.

How Healthy Data Can Improve Internal Communication

The following are 3 ways healthy data can improve internal communication:

1. Better Channel Management

One of the biggest communication issues colleges face today is channel selection. Not every channel is one-size-fits-all. For example, most departments communicate using emails, which are easy to create and send, and even easier to miss amidst the hundreds received daily. Moreover, social channels lack authority. Healthy data can help you choose the right channels for the right information at the right times.

Luckily, with AMSA connect, you don’t have to worry about channel management, as it features a social media-like feed that you can use to communicate internally in real-time. With centralized data access and communication, you boost internal communication on-campus and ensure every department is connected at all times.

2. It’s All About the Students

Without students, colleges won’t be a success. Today’s most successful colleges have student success at their core. However, we cannot ensure student success if we don’t understand students. That’s where healthy student data comes in. By making student success data readily available to every department, teams can communicate relevant insights they picked from the analysis. The right communication can encourage faculties and the administration to focus on new findings and improve their processes.

Bottom Line

Effective internal communication is the key to success in any organization. Solid internal communication in colleges can help departments carry out everyday tasks consistently with healthy data flowing across the IT infrastructure.

If you’re ready to centralize internal communication and streamline data flow across every department, get in touch with AMSA Connect right away.