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GRACELAND UNIVERSITY
“ The HESS Collective has provided me more insight than I’ ve provided them. I’ ve received twice as much as I give”
Talia Brown, Chief Information & Data Officer, Graceland University
“ We connect at conference sessions, and I meet with them on a regular basis.” Graceland deployed multiple pillars of the Oracle platform within the first year. The pace runs counter to expectations about higher education, where decisionmaking tends to crawl. Talia attributes the speed to institutional willingness to take risks. The institution moved quickly on a project that others might stretch across several years. The project gained a lot of attention. Oracle’ s Excellence Award for CIO of the Year was awarded to Talia Brown in 2025.( Infrastructure Awards Past Winners | Customer Awards | Oracle).
Oracle Student Management represents the next major phase, with planning already underway. The platform has numerous AI agents already built in. Applications span expense reports, payroll queries and administrative tasks that currently require human intervention.
“ There are already AI agents in the system, so we can configure those, test those out and turn them on whenever we’ re ready,” Talia says.
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