Higher‑education leaders are deploying evidence-based interventions to raise completion rates: intrusive advising, curricular redesign, targeted financial supports, and early-alert analytics. A how‑to brief summarized five proven strategies colleges should adopt, while the University of St. Thomas described using student data to personalize engagement—tracking attendance, progress indicators and tailored outreach to reduce stopouts. Administrators and faculty proponents said coordinated, cross-campus efforts that blend human advising with analytics produce the biggest gains, though they cautioned about privacy safeguards and staff capacity needed to scale interventions. The examples provide operational playbooks for institutions grappling with completion shortfalls.