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About Oracle Higher Education Constituent Hub

Oracle Higher Education Constituent Hub provides for the needs of higher education institutions, which typically have a large number of systems where a wide variety of personal, biographical and demographic data is captured. Oracle Higher Education Constituent Hub provides a means to maintain accurate, single source control of all these disparate data across your enterprise. Oracle Higher Education Constituent Hub enables you to capture, standardize and correct constituent names and addresses; identify and merge duplicate records; enrich constituent profiles; enforce compliance and risk policies; and distribute a best version record to all subscribing systems. For a list of schema changes for this release of Oracle Higher Education Constituent Hub, see Schema Changes for Oracle Customer Hub (UCM) Version 8.2.

What Is a Constituent?

A constituent is record that is analogous to a contact in Oracle Customer Hub (UCM). For example, in Oracle Higher Education Constituent Hub, constituents are defined as applicants, students, alumni, faculty, donors, and staff.