The pilot worked. Now it must land: four factions, four quarters, one move per quarter — showcase, co-own, mandate, fund, formalize, handover. Ownership is what you build; willingness is what you spend. The debrief scores the ending: durable embedding, or pilot theater?
Noorderlicht University and its First-Year Skills programme are fictional composites of public higher-education implementation patterns — no real institution is depicted · runs fully offline · drafted with AI assistance and fully rewritten, fact-checked and owned by a human.