Autonomy and Innovation: Systemic Change in a Decentralized State by higher education and workforce development expert Tom Hilliard, describes Michigan’s participation in Achieving the Dream, detailing how college-level reform initiatives highlight the need and build momentum for collective, state-level action to foster collaboration, spread innovation, and make effective use of student outcome data. The Michigan Center for Student Success was created by the Michigan Association of Community Colleges to fill that need. The Center is building a culture of student success across the state’s community colleges and providing them with state-level infrastructure to support their reforms while respecting their tradition and culture of operating autonomously.