Change on campus is hard. You are up against decades of traditions and comfort in the norm that can be very difficult to battle. However, the world and our students are changing. Therefore, being able to create change on campus is necessary.

So how do we do it? How do we get people on board and find the time and resources to get the work done to actually make change?

I like to use John Kotter’s Process for Leading Change methodology to guide me from ideation to reality. Let’s take a look at the eight steps he sets out.

As we walk through each step, we will use the following example: a fictional university’s goal is to use CampusGroups to transition to paperless procedures on campus.