Students, or anyone who has been a student, have a data problem, and it’s one they may not even know exists. The massive data set of student transcript information in the US is largely inaccessible to the individuals it is designed to benefit.
While one would assume students should have knowledge of who, when and how their transcript and other academic data is being used, this is not always the case. One would think students should have unencumbered access to their transcript data, but today’s system makes it difficult to obtain.
‘The benefits of enabling access to academic data are vast.’