By John Warner. According to a National Geographic/Morning Consult poll, 77 percent of Americans think students should be taught “more” history. More...
Guest Post: 'The Years That Matter Most'
By John Warner. Akil Bello, someone uniquely positioned to observe the landscape of higher ed admissions, weighs in on a book lots of people are talking about. More...
Finding Writing Energy
By John Warner. Each year of my three years of graduate study in creative writing, I wrote approximately 100,000 words of original fiction, a total of over 300,000 words. More...
Deadlines in the "Real World"
By John Warner. When I was teaching a full course load of 12 hours of writing-intensive classes (ranging between 60 and 130 students per semester) deadlines for student writing assignments were unbreakable. More...
Waking Some Slumbering Writing Muscles
By John Warner. I used to do something all the time, then I stopped. Thankfully, the writing muscles are there, waiting to be reactivated. More...
The Missing Piece of Matt Reed's Data Puzzle
By John Warner. Institutional, "enterprise-level" data can't answer questions it isn't designed for. Sometimes we need to look to other methods. More...
Writing Is Socializing
By John Warner. I have been reading Sarah Rose Cavanagh’s terrific new book, Hivemind: The New Science of Tribalism in Our Divided World, and it’s making me see writing in ways I’ve never considered before. More...
The Grateful Dead as a Guide for Nonprofit Leadership
I lead an organization called IFYC that works with college campuses and higher education networks on religious diversity initiatives (curricular, co-curricular and strategic). Before starting IFYC, I thought that the idea itself mattered most, that it would naturally move into the world, like fog coming into San Francisco. More...
Building a Better Multiculturalism
The United States is the world’s first attempt at a mass-level diverse democracy. That’s one of the reasons we call this “the American experiment” -- because not only was such a thing never tried before, people considered it impossible. More...