Tyler Walsh

Tyler Walsh is the Director of the Center for Higher Education Innovation (CHEI) at the University of Central Florida where he also serves as the University Innovation Alliance Fellow. As Director of the CHEI, Tyler leads a project management and data team dedicated to improving higher education access, success, and post-completion achievements for all students. Tyler and his team facilitate collaboration among UCF units and design, evaluate, and disseminate innovative projects that dismantle institutional barriers and improve student success and well-being at UCF and beyond. As UIA Fellow, he provides leadership and project management for key strategic initiatives and collaborates with leading national partners in an effort to provide UCF students with a healthy and thriving student success ecosystem. Before joining UCF, Tyler was a Senior Program Advisor at the National Institute for Student Success (NISS) at Georgia State University. In this role, he developed and managed projects with dozens of colleges and universities across the nation as they sought to dismantle barriers to student success, improve student outcomes, and eliminate equity gaps. Tyler also conducted research for the NISS using chatbots to improve course-level academic outcomes and continues to pursue this research at UCF. Tyler holds Master’s degrees in both Anthropology and Political Science from Georgia State University and a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Florida.

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