Enroll360 documents

Todd Feathers filed this request with the Northern Arizona University of Flagstaff, AZ.
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From: Todd Feathers

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Arizona Public Records Law, I hereby request the following records:

1) All contracts and statements of work between the university and EAB and/or Intersect (formerly Hobsons' Intersect). In particular, this should include contracts and statements of work related to EAB's Enroll 360 product and/or Intersect. This should also include any sole source justification documents.

2) All user manuals and employee training materials for Enroll 360 and/or Intersect.

3) Documentation of the Enroll 360 and Intersect predictive models the university uses to help identify prospective students, target student recruitment and advertising, determine financial aid, or inform other recruitment and enrollment decisions. This should include any documents—often called predictive model reports, data libraries, model performance reports, etc.—that describe the statistical and machine learning methods the model uses (e.g., logistical regression, gradient boosting, etc.), what data was used to train the predictive models, what data variables are incorporated in the models, how those variables are weighted, and/or how those models perform.

4) A list of the student academic and demographic variables that university employees can select from within the Intersect software to target recruitment messages to specific groups of students. If a list does not already exist, I will accept screenshots of the variables from the Intersect software.

5) Documentation of all targeted recruitment messages the university has sent through Intersect since Jan. 1, 2019. This should include, where possible, the student academic and demographic variables used to target those messages and impact and ROI reports for those messages.

Should you have any questions about any aspect of this request, please don't hesitate to ask.

I ask that all fees be waived as I am a journalist and intend to use the requested records to publish articles in the public interest. In the event you choose to impose fees, I request a detailed breakdown of the fees, including the hourly wage of each employ involved and an explanation justifying the employee hours required to fulfill the request.

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 business days.

Sincerely,

Todd Feathers

From: Northern Arizona University

Please fill out and return the attached form and we will begin processing your request. Thank you.

NAU Communications

From: Todd Feathers

Please see attached.

Thank you very much for your help.

From: Northern Arizona University

This responds to your email of Oct. 19, 2021, in which you request many documents from different departments and across different types of media, pursuant to Arizona's public records law. NAU is in receipt of your request and is presently reviewing its files and materials to determine what it may possess that is responsive. We appreciate your patience during this, a very busy time of year for the university. We will be back in touch as soon as we learn more.

NAU Communications

From: Northern Arizona University

Thank you for reaching out. We are continuing to work on this request and will get back with you regarding any responsive documents. Thank you.

NAU Communications

From: Northern Arizona University

All responsive records are attached. Thank you.

NAU Communications

From: Todd Feathers

Hello,

You have not provided any justification, even a citation of an statutory exemption, for any of the redactions. Please provide me unredacted versions of these records as none of the information you've redacted is exempt under law.

Todd

From: Northern Arizona University

Todd,

Release of the redacted information would be harmful to NAU’s operations and is not in the best interests of the State. NAU is properly withholding the information—and not releasing unredacted versions of the records—in accordance with long-standing Arizona law. See, e.g., Ariz. Bd. of Regents v. Phx. Newspapers Inc., 167 Ariz. 254, 257–58, 806 P.2d 348, 351–52 (1991) (“When release of information would have an important and harmful effect on the duties of the officials or agency in question, there is discretion not to release the requested documents.”); Mathews v. Pyle, 75 Ariz. 76, 81, 251 P.2d 893, 897 (1952) (recognizing exception to public disclosure when release of records would be “detrimental to the best interests of the state”).

Thank you.

NAU Communications

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