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​Establish strategic priorities; address imme​diate needs

Accomplishments 

• Delegated authority to the chancellor to approve new degree programs brought forward by the universities—increasing the speed at which new programs move from concept to reality; this will allow students to have quicker access to new programs.
  
• Streamlined the processes for facilities planning and real property acquisition/disposal; this will allow the universities to operate more efficiently.
• Eliminated or updated more than two dozen outdated, unnecessary, or burdensome policies; this will enable the universities to be more nimble.
• Identified additional policy changes to provide greater flexibility to the universities; this will continue efforts to empower the universities to better meet the needs of students.
• Launched a webpage to enable everyone to engage in the System Redesign effort, provide comments on proposed policy changes, and track the progress of the task groups; this will ensure the involvement of all stakeholders in the process.​
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Define the vision | Develop detailed implementation plans​​