John Warner

Jan 9, 2025 | insidehighered.com | John Warner

Q: Why is the university making me take this course? A: English 110 is the course that fulfills what is known colloquially as “freshman composition.” As part of your education, you’re expected to be proficient writers across multiple contexts. Q: I hate to interrupt, but don’t we already know how to write? We did get admitted to a rather selective university, after all.

Dec 11, 2024 | insidehighered.com | John Warner

December 11, 2024 If we want there to be such a thing as college faculty, that is. You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. If college faculty are going to survive in a world of artificial intelligence, they’re going to have to start to see themselves as laborers first. And by survive, I mean survive, as in continue to actually exist. I feel like I’m well equipped to help here.

Nov 22, 2024 | insidehighered.com | John Warner

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Every threat is an opportunity. I do not remember who first told me this, but I’m fairly sure it was someone at my post–grad school employer, a market research and consultancy firm.

Nov 15, 2024 | insidehighered.com | John Warner

November 15, 2024 As always, these things are complicated. Don’t trust anyone who says otherwise. You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. I should disclose what some folks call one’s “priors” when it comes to the notion of institutional neutrality as applied to our colleges and universities. I don’t get it. I mean, I get it. I understand what people mean when they invoke the term, but I don’t know how it’s workable in today’s world.

Nov 7, 2024 | insidehighered.com | John Warner

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The morning after the surprise of Donald Trump’s 2016 election, feeling unmoored and distressed, I put on my shoes to go for what I thought would be my usual three and a half– to four-mile run.