Lindsay Coco
Dr. Lindsay Coco is the inaugural University Innovation Alliance Fellow and Special Assistant to the Vice Provost for Student Success at the University of Utah. She has over 20 years of professional experience in a wide variety of functional areas including academic and co-curricular student success, campus life, international education, teaching and learning, faculty development, honors college programs, and higher education research.
In her role at Utah, she strategically leads cross-functional groups working on projects aimed at enhancing student success and improving retention, persistence, and graduation rates. Her work is primarily focused on institutional academic structures, systems, and policies. In addition, she also provides internal consulting services on topics such as process mapping, design thinking, and emotional intelligence to various campus teams. Lindsay’s previous higher education experience includes work at the University of Georgia, Texas A&M University, Ogeechee Technical College, Southern Methodist University, as well as numerous years working abroad for the Qatar Foundation in Doha, Qatar. Lindsay’s work is guided by her belief that empowering students, particularly those who are underrepresented, first-generation, limited-income, and/or rural, through educational attainment can have lasting and immeasurable impact on students’ lives, their family and supporters’ lives, and generations to come.
Lindsay earned a bachelors in Economics and International Studies and Masters in Educational Administration from Texas A&M University and a Ph.D. in Higher Education from the Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia.
