A role which would be nice is Student Services, which gives a full list of currently registered students, class schedules, ID Card export features, Residence status (along with fees for room, and meals) (also for current and future residence students too to assist in planning), and the ability to run reports on the data and demgraphics contained within. This wouldn't need access to grades, but it would be extremely useful, especially for assessment data.
Reports could include: age, gender, denomination, year started, program, export of all e-mail addresses to spreadsheet, and more useful things like that.
Maybe these things would come when granular permissions are introduced, but if this could be a useful interim solution.