"The Virginia Plan for Higher Education" articulates the objective that the Commonwealth will be the best-educated state by 2030. To achieve this objective, Virginia not only must increase educational attainment rates, but also must close the gaps in the differing rates of attainment that exist across its population and its regions. For these higher levels of attainment to be meaningful, Virginia also must address problems in its talent pipeline. These problems relate to the growing out-migration of educated residents, the slowing in-migration of educated non-Virginians, the changing needs for talent in Virginia business and industry, and the increased value, especially in some areas of the state, of sub-associate-degree workforce credentials. Within this context, in fall 2018 the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) formed an ad hoc committee to consider ways to improve educational outcomes across the state. This report is a summary of the ad hoc committee's considerations, findings and proposed actions.