The Full House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on October 12, 2017 provided some reasons for optimism regarding the Trump Administration’s support of the Census Bureau. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross testified before the committee and voiced support for appropriate funding of the 2020 Census. Further, the Administration plans to hire a comparable number of enumerators to the 2010 Census, which will be much more efficient due to the use of technology. If you’d like to learn more about planning for the 2020 Census, consider attending the 2020 Census Quarterly Program Management Review on October 27, 2017 at 12:30PM.
APDU Elections Committee Asks for Nominations The Elections Committee is governed by the APDU By-Laws, Article 5. The Committee is preparing a slate of candidates for Secretary and an At-Large Board Member. Incumbent Secretary Sarah Burgoyne has decided to seek a 2nd term. Erin Holve, currently an At-Large Board Member, is not seeking a 2nd term. The Elections Committee welcomes your suggestions as we prepare a slate of candidates. The deadline for suggestions to the Election Committee is October 31. Please send your nominations to Warren Brown at warren.brown@cornell.edu.
Data plays a vastly expanded role in our lives, yet the term big data has gone out of fashion?and acquired something of an unsavory reputation. It?s worth looking back at what, exactly, happened to the revolution that was promised, and where data, analytics, and algorithms are headed now.
Governments around the world are placing more scrutiny on their citizens. People will need to be aware of the privacy risks they face if they want to protect their identities.
?While the recommendations in the report are an important start, many details on how to implement the vision set forth by the Commission remain to be determined. COSSA looks forward to working with its partners in Congress and at federal agencies on legislation and policy changes to ensure that the work of the Commission is brought to fruition.?
Recently, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, whom President Donald Trump appointed to lead the department that oversees the Census Bureau, told a congressional panel that the agency will need to spend a total of $15.6 billion, some $3.3 billion more than a 2015 estimate, to conduct a “full, fair, and accurate census.”
A decade in the making, upgrade of the federal government?s main higher ed database enables tracking part-time and adult students and gauging graduation rates for Pell Grant recipients. Limits remain, though.
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Federal Rulemaking and Calls for Comment
APDU maintains a list of open calls for comment on proposed federal data collections. We periodically alert APDU members to newly added calls for comment. Over the last several weeks, calls for comment on the following proposed data collections were published in the Federal Register (with due date):
Administration for Children and Families
National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (November 16, 2017)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System (February 1, 2018)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Youth Tobacco Surveys (December 12, 2017)
October 19, 2017
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