Higher Education today faces generational challenges: rapidly growing skepticism of its true value, declining affordability, a pressing need for stronger college-to-career pathways, widespread uncertainty about how to grapple with AI, and much more. This panel discussion will share practical, cohesive frameworks to address these pressing issues, and it will explore actionable solutions for institutions (and their partners) to achieve lasting preeminence through a combination of strategic decision-making and risk-taking, building the right “partnership stack” to address top priorities, and measuring outcomes in meaningful ways.