The fullness of Black students’ experiences in college has yet to be archived. The same can be said of Black people broadly, whose existence has long been reduced by and to what is observable, by systems of power and those at the helm. This is perhaps due to the structural and structural limitations of data collection efforts, or not of interest to decision-makers. Or perhaps, this is a symbol of the impossibility of capturing Black life beyond the physical. Regardless, Black life on college campuses across the globe is systematically reduced to standard institutional measures. This reduction is facilitated by the ongoing datafication of student success—the ways that students’ success has been made metric and the ways student success as a socio-political phenomenon has been increasingly governed by data-related practices and discourses. As a result, Black students’ material and data realities are (re)constructed, especially through student success data practices.

黑人学生在大学的完整经历尚未被存档。同样的情况也适用于广泛的黑人，他们的存在早已被权力体系和掌舵人所削弱，并降到了可观察到的程度。这可能是由于数据收集工作的结构和结构限制，或者决策者不感兴趣。或许，这象征着不可能捕捉到超越物质的黑人生活。无论如何，全球大学校园里的黑人生活都被系统性地简化为标准的制度措施。这种减少是由学生成功的持续数据化促进的——学生的成功被衡量的方式以及学生成功作为一种社会政治现象越来越多地受到与数据相关的实践和话语的控制。结果，黑人学生的材料和数据现实被（重新）构建，特别是通过学生成功的数据实践。