Facilitate shared governance and collective decision-making: Any solution regarding financial aid will be resisted if imposed in an autocratic manner

Articulate core characteristics: What is our main mission and value?

Focus on image: How will cutting need-blind aid be portrayed in the media?

Connect the change process to individual and institutional identity: What is more important, funding the institution's growth or fostering the growth of the individual -- how can we balance these needs, or can we?

Create a culture of risk and help people in changing belief systems: Universities and learning are by definition paradigm-challenging -- try to think outside...

(2001). Understanding and facilitating change in higher education in the 21st century. ERIC Digest. Retrieved May 2, 2009 at http://www.ericdigests.org/2002-2/21st.htm