Coordination Without Centralization: How UC Built Student Success at Scale
Join Tara Warden from UC live as she walks through the model, the decisions, and the outcomes behind one of the most coordinated student success systems in public higher education.
What It Actually Takes to Scale Student Success
The University of Cincinnati coordinates student success across 16 colleges and 53,600 students without a centralized structure, without growing headcount, and with measurable results: a 15.8% increase in first-year enrollment, a 1.9 pp retention lift, and a 7.7 pp improvement in six-year graduation rates.
In this session, Tara Warden, Assistant Vice Provost at UC, walks through exactly how — the model, the infrastructure, and what it took to make it stick.
What You Will Learn:
- How UC built coordination across 16 colleges without a centralized structure or new headcount
- What the Bearcat Promise required operationally and how commitment became day-to-day infrastructure
- How the Student Impact Platform gets the right signals to the right teams without routing everything through one office
- What it takes to move from reactive early alert to proactive, coordinated outreach at scale
- What Tara would tell a peer VP or SSP director who is not sure where to start
15.8% more first-year students enrolled. See the system behind it.
Meet the Speakers
Hear directly from a student success leader putting this work into practice, alongside the team helping bring it to life.
