A new APLU report finds public and land-grant universities have moved from disconnected student-success programming toward coordinated, data-driven strategies. The report highlights how campuses are reorganizing supports into more integrated systems rather than running separate advising, retention, and interventions in silos. For institutional leaders, the reported emphasis is on building shared data practices and governance structures that align programs across the student lifecycle. The development reflects an operational shift: student success is increasingly treated as a system-wide analytics and coordination effort, not a collection of standalone initiatives. In practice, the change targets variation in how students experience support services—particularly for students who struggle early, transfer, or face multiple barriers. By coordinating interventions around common metrics, universities can better identify which levers are working and reduce duplication across offices. The report’s framing matters for state and accreditor conversations as well: coordinated assessment and improvement efforts are increasingly expected when campuses demonstrate measurable progress in persistence and completion.