Joint Communication Regarding Academic Analytics Data

June 1, 2021 

Dear Colleagues, 

This joint communication provides information regarding a recently signed Memorandum of Understanding: Regarding Academic Analytics Data.

The BGSU Faculty Association and the Office of the Provost agree that analytics describing research activity, such as those produced by Academic Analytics (AA), can be useful tools to identify and enumerate university strengths, promote institutional self-awareness, and establish goals for building and maintaining areas of excellence. AA data will be available to individual BUFM upon request, the accuracy of AA data may be reviewed and questioned by BUFM, and AA data will not be used as a punitive tool to assess BUFMs or deprive BUFMs or units of resources. 

The University and the BGSU Faculty Association felt it appropriate to memorialize our understanding in a Memorandum of Understanding that was signed on May 17, 2021.

Regards,

Joe B. Whitehead, Jr.
Provost and Senior Vice President

David J. Jackson
BGSU-FA President