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.
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Creating an Academic Culture of Working to Live
I’m often asked how I succeed at managing work-life balance—or as I call it, “life-work balance”— and it stems from my childhood. My parents both worked as educators, and