Long an afterthought of the American higher education ecosystem, multi-campus systems have become more important than ever. In recent years, leading higher education systems have engaged in transforming the way they work, scaling best practices, leveraging data and analytics, and creating platforms to optimize and personalize these systems for increasingly diverse students. In Higher Education Systems Redesigned, leaders of these efforts share their insights into "systemness" and how to facilitate sustainable change in a system setting while navigating and leveraging tensions between campus and system priorities. Highlighting examples of successful realignment of these priorities with a focus on contextualized design and implementation, the book charts a shift in the aim of systems. Rather than perpetuating existing norms as they have traditionally done, systems are taking measures to spark innovation across campuses and use evidence-based practices to foster student access and completion rates, better serve communities, and drive social mobility and economic growth. Each chapter concludes with a list of takeaways to guide other system leaders and administrators. One of the few recent examinations of higher education systems, Higher Education Systems Redesigned offers a theoretical and practical framework for how systems can continually evolve.

List of IllustrationsForewordArt SeaveyPrefaceNancy L. ZimpherAcknowledgmentsJonathan S. Gagliardi and Jason E. LanePart I: Background1. The Evolution of Higher Education Systems from Regulators to Facilitators to Leaders of Student SuccessJonathan S. Gagliardi and Jason E. Lane2. Scaling Up and Scaling Out: A Framework for System-Facilitated Innovation in Higher EducationJonathan S. GagliardiPart II: Reimaging Educational Delivery3. A System Perspective on Scaling High-Impact Practices in Higher EducationAudrey Hovannesian and Ken O'Donnell4. Embracing Disruption and New Educational Models to Transform Learning across Higher Education SystemsHouston D. Davis and Myk Garn5. Predictive Analytics and Choice Architecture and Their Role in System-Scale Student Success: Empowering a Mobile Advising Tool across CampusesTristan DenleyPart III: Building an Innovation Infrastructure6. The Role of Higher Education Systems in Promoting Educational Innovation: Developing a Competency-Based Learning Environment at ScaleSteven Mintz7. Enabling the Culture of Academic Innovation: Lessons Learned from a Systemwide Course Redesign InitiativeJoann A. Boughman and M. J. BishopPart IV: Frameworks for Large-Scale Change8. Driving Student Success Collectively: Lessons Scaling from Campuses to Systems to a Network of SystemsRebecca R. Martin and Jason E. Lane9. Navigating the Messy Business of Multicampus System Change in Higher Education: A Framework for ImplementationJason E. Lane and Jonathan S. GagliardiContributorsIndex