Late spring semester in 2025, the president of a midsize liberal arts college convened an emergency meeting of the senior leadership team. A highly respected dean had submitted her resignation, citing burnout and a desire to return to the classroom. She would be gone in six weeks.
Beyond the Credential Factory: Why Higher Education Must Shift from Management to Flourishing
For decades, higher education leadership has obsessed over “student success” as a purely operational metric. We track retention and graduation rates and postgraduation outcomes with the same linear precision that
Yoshitaka Iwasaki
August 3, 2026
