Nestled in the heart of Lancaster County in South Central Pennsylvania, Millersville University is a public liberal arts institution that serves around 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students. As one of the 14 institutions in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, Millersville University describes its overall mission through its EPPIIC values: exploration, professionalism, public mission, inclusion, integrity, and compassion. At the intersection of these values lies more large-scale adoption of open educational resources (OER) to support student learning.
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
