A new Association of Public and Land-grant Universities report lays out six strategies public institutions can use to improve degree completion through coordinated, data-driven student success systems. The framework emphasizes making graduation a central institutional responsibility rather than a collection of separate initiatives. Among the recommended moves are expanding data-informed advising, clarifying academic pathways with structured degree maps, removing near-graduation financial barriers through targeted “completion grants,” and reengaging students who stop out. The report also urges integrating academic and personal supports into unified systems. The analysis, titled “A Decade of Success,” reviewed 154 innovations implemented by 90 institutions in 41 states from 2015 to 2024, documenting how institutions evolved from first-year retention efforts to guided pathways and finally to broader holistic support models accelerated by COVID-era changes. For campus leaders, the practical focus is on closing the final obstacles that keep students from diplomas—especially acute financial shortfalls—while improving reconnect systems for students who have already left the institution.