Based on document analysis and 40 interviews with Roundtable participants and other stakeholders across North Dakota, this report assesses the factors that enabled the North Dakota Higher Education Roundtable vision to be sustained for more than seven years, identifies obstacles encountered during the sustainability process, and provides suggestions to help other states build and eventually sustain their own public agenda. Appended are: (A) Study Methods; (B) North Dakota Higher Education Prior to the Roundtable; and (C) Media Relations Strategies. (Contains 45 endnotes.)