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This work-in-progress paper describes a Student Success Knowledge Graph (SSKG) that provides the foundation for documenting a shared understanding of student success and effective practices and discovering sources and experts of such efforts. The initiative contributes to a larger effort to create a culture of equity-minded, knowledge-driven decision-making. Using a participatory process that involves faculty, researchers, and administrators across campus, the research team documents information and knowledge centered on high-impact practices, student resources, student opportunities, identity and belonging in STEM, and components of inclusive excellence. Such a process involves diverse stakeholders in co-creating and validating the content of the SSKG and identifying relevant data sources. Through navigation of the SSKG using the custom-built interface, faculty, and administrators can discover practices used by departments and experts, adopters and experts associated with those practices, and supporting literature that informs the practices. This work aims to assist in knowledge-driven decision-making as chairs, faculty, and administrators seek to improve student retention and advancement in academic programs. This paper describes the creation of the SSKG and the implementation process, including the graphical interface and the question-answering that supports knowledge discovery.