As Utah's public institutions enroll the vast majority of Utah high school graduates, the Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) is the primary workforce pipeline in the state. But USHE institutions are expecting over 52,000 new students by 2025, and will need to grow capacity academically, physically, and virtually to keep pace. Seeking to proactively address these issues, the Board of Regents adopted a ten-year strategic plan in January 2016, focusing on three key objectives: Affordable Participation, Timely Completion, and Innovative Discovery. Throughout 2016, the Board of Regents laid the framework for specific initiatives, programs, and collaborations to prioritize to ensure the three objectives were addressed. There are numerous efforts underway at all USHE institutions in support of these objectives; the focus here is on those efforts directly by the Commissioner's Office to advance the Board's priorities. This annual update highlights progress made on these objectives, and what next steps the Commissioner's Office--in close partnership with USHE institutions--will take to achieve further progress.