My school's president & Provost, after years of obstruction, secrecy, and misinformation about finances and other critical information (based on which they have eliminated positions, increased workloads, and made lots of people very unhappy), have reluctantly agreed to create a "secure web portal" sometime in the future to share some data.
We're a public university, funded and owned by the citizens of the state. This information should be automatically, with no human intervention, fed to a page on the open web.
Nobody hates transparency as much as public servants.
[Note: we had more transparency until about 3 years ago, when a colleague and I created an analysis of spending by the administration, after which the Provost cancelled the service that allowed faculty to see any university financial info, so I guess I'm proudly responsible for that]
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