This thought-provoking volume brings together scholars and system leaders to analyze some of the most pressing and complex issues now facing higher education systems and society. Higher Education Systems 3.0 focuses on the remaking of higher education coordination in an era of increased accountability, greater calls for productivity, and intensifying fiscal austerity. System heads have been identifying ways to harness the collective contributions of their various institutions to benefit the students, communities, and other stakeholders that they serve. The contributors explore the recent dynamics of higher education systems, focusing particularly on how systems are now working to improve their effectiveness in educating students and improving our communities, while also identifying new means for operating more efficiently. This enhanced collaboration, or "systemness," is the key aspect of version 3.0. Following a list of illustrations and acknowledgments, this book includes: Part I. The History and Definition of Systemness: (1) Higher Education System 3.0: Adding Value to States and Institutions (Jason E. Lane); (2) Systemness: Unpacking the Value of Higher Education Systems (Nancy L. Zimpher); and (3) The History and Evolution of Higher Education Systems in the United States (Aims C. McGuinness Jr.). Part II. Challenges to System Innovation: Unpacking the Tensions: (4) Higher Educational Autonomy and the Apportionment of Authority among State Governments, Public Multi-Campus Systems, and Member Colleges and Universities (D. Bruce Johnstone); (5) The Changing Role of Higher Education Systems in Finance (Jane V. Wellman); (6) Reorganizing Higher Education Systems: By Drift or Design? (Katharine C. Lyall); (7) Board Governance of Public University Systems: Balancing Institutional Independence and System Coordination (C. Judson King); (8) Systems, Ecosystems, and Change in State-Level Public Higher Education (Mario Martinez and Brandy Smith); and (9) Serving Public Purposes: Challenges for Systems in Changing State Context (Aims C. McGuinness Jr.). Part III. Emerging Roles for Systems: (10) The Changing Role of Systems in Academic Affairs (Jan M. Ignash); (11) Workforce Development at Community Colleges: Can Systems Make a Difference? (David F. Shaffer); (12) The Systemness of Internationalization Strategies: How Higher Education Systems Are Aiding Institutions with Globalization (Jason E. Lane); and (13) Higher Education Systems in an Era of Public Engagement: An Organizational Learning Perspective (David J. Weerts). A contributors section and an index are included.