Welcome to the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service!

EDUCAUSE offers the Core Data Service to our members to address your ongoing need for comparison data about campus information technology environments and practices. You can use the service to help benchmark, plan for, and make decisions about IT on your campus.

Thanks for the Core Data Service and the great support staff behind the scenes. CDS is a fantastic tool and heavily used at Wayne State University for strategic technology planning.

This service has three components:

	Web-based survey, through which you are asked annually to provide data about IT on your campus for sharing through a Web-based database service available to all who complete the survey Preview the Survey [PDF 153 KB ] View Respondent Demographics View or Complete Your Campus's Survey (EDUCAUSE-issued username and password and authorization required)
	Web-based database service, through which authorized participants are able to access survey data, using tools that enable the creation of peer groups of like campuses, on-the-fly generation of summaries of the data for each question, and views of raw data identifiable by institution Preview the Service (Tutorial) Access the Service (EDUCAUSE-issued username and password and authorization required)
	Annual survey summary report available to the public offering aggregated data for questions of special interest in each of the survey's five areas 2008 Summary Report 2007 Summary Report 2006 Summary Report 2005 Summary Report 2004 Summary Report 2003 Summary Report 2002 Summary Report

• Data provided through the survey become available through the database service and are identifiable by campus.
• There is no charge for the database service, but access is restricted to those campuses that respond with legitimate data to all questions on the current core data survey and officially submit the survey. Access is further restricted to individuals who have been authenticated and authorized for such access and who agree to the appropriate use policy.
• The Web-based database service is not available to the public, corporations, researchers, associations, agencies, or the media. The survey summary report provides aggregated-data summaries and analysis to serve these populations.

For answers to the following questions, please see the Core Data Service frequently asked questions (FAQs)

• Why should I complete the core data survey?
• How long will it take to complete the survey?
• Who is invited to complete the core data survey?
• What if my campus is part of a multi-campus or state/district system?
• How do I authorize others on my campus to access the survey and/or database service?
• Who can access the interactive database service?

©Copyright EDUCAUSE. Data contributed to the Core Data Service by a participating institution remain the property of that institution. Otherwise, the contents of the Core Data Service database, survey, and Web site are the copyrighted property of EDUCAUSE and may not be reproduced, republished, distributed, sold, transferred, downloaded, or modified without the express written permission of EDUCAUSE. EDUCAUSE claims copyright to data captured through the Core Data Service to protect data confidentiality on behalf of contributors, not for commercial gain.