Meet the Power of Systems

The National Association of System Heads and more than 100 higher education leaders convened this week to launch the Power of Systems—a national initiative that calls on a network of public university systems to address several pressing issues in higher education.

The initiative will aim to improve credential completion and social mobility and to reduce student debt by tackling issues and inefficiencies in five key areas of higher education: learning, talent, equity, investment and “systemness,” or the practice of fostering cohesion over competition among different systems.