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The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the unsustainability of our public higher education system; in Sustainable. Resilient. Free., author and educator John Warner maps out a path for change.

In 1983, U.S. News and World Report started to rank colleges and universities, throwing them into competition with each other for students and precious resources. Over the course of the next thirty or so years a Reagan-era ethos of privatization and competition turned students into consumers and colleges into businesses. Tuition is unaffordable. Student loan debt is more than $1.6 trillion, and a majority of college faculty work in adjunct positions for low pay and with no security. Colleges exist to enroll students, collect tuition, and hold classes. When learning happens, it is in spite of the system, not because of it. In Sustainable. Resilient. Free., John Warner envisions a future in which our public colleges and universities are reoriented around enhancing the intellectual, social, and economic potentials of students while providing broad-based benefits to the community at large. As Warner explains, it’s not even complicated. It’s no more costly than the current system. We just have to choose to live the values we claim to hold dear.

A critical read for anyone invested in the future of public higher education.

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"Warner’s brief volume gets the big questions right, and does it in an accessible, clear and pointed way. It deserves much more attention than it will probably get. A sustainable, resilient and free system of public higher education would benefit everybody, not only those who attend, and we once understood that. Warner’s book helps us understand it again."―Matt Reed, Inside Higher Ed

"A vision of public universities as an infrastructure that serves public-oriented missions and the changes necessary to make that happen."―Michael Neitzel, Forbes's "Best Higher Education Books of 2020," honorable mention.

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John Warner is a writer, editor, speaker, teacher, and consultant. Since 2001, he’s held a series of teaching positions at four different institutions, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Virginia Tech, Clemson University and College of Charleston, where he currently holds the title of faculty affiliate. Warner writes the Just Visiting blog at Inside Higher Ed, where he has become a national voice on issues of faculty labor and writing pedagogy. He also writes a weekly column for the Chicago Tribune on books and reading as his alter ego, The Biblioracle. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Belt Publishing (October 27, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1948742950
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1948742955
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.9 x 0.6 x 7.2 inches

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John Warner is the author of seven books, including most recently "Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities" (Johns Hopkins UP) and "The Writer's Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing" (Penguin), which draw upon his 20 years of experience as a writer and teaching of writing.
John's first book ("My First Presidentiary: A Scrapbook of George W. Bush" co-authored with Kevin Guilfoile) was written primarily in colored pencil and turned into a Washington Post #1 best seller. Since then he’s published a parody of writing advice ("Fondling Your Muse: Infallible Advice from a Published Author to a Writerly Aspirant"), more politically minded humor ("So You Want to Be President?"), a novel ("The Funny Man"), and a collection of short stories ("Tough Day for the Army"). From 2003 to 2008 he edited McSweeney’s Internet Tendency for which he now serves as an editor at large, and writes a weekly column for the Chicago Tribune on books and reading as his alter ego, The Biblioracle. He is a contributing writer to Inside Higher Ed, and can be found on Twitter @biblioracle.
John Warner is a frequent speaker to school and college groups about issues of writing pedagogy and academic labor. You can find more information at johnwarnerwriter.com
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Tess

I will believe with you

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 30, 2020

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At the end of this wonderful book, John Warner asks "Who will believe with me?" Mr. Warner lays out a clear vision of and the possibilities inherent in a sustainable, resilient, and free public higher education system. I read this book in about 2.5 hours in one sitting. I work in the private sector but all my customers are in higher ed, so I have seen first-hand the struggles the sector has had the last 20 years, the incredible challenges it has faced because of the pandemic, and the bigger ones that await with an "enrollment cliff" coming. I also have a daughter who began her freshman year at a public university during the pandemic - it hasn't gone so great.

The book details how we got to a place where student debt needs to be forgiven, where tuition has become exorbitant, where the public has lost faith in our institutions of higher learning, and where colleges and universities are drowning in operations. This book is not a detailed roadmap. Rather, it is an inspiring vision of public higher ed as table-stakes infrastructure and what needs to happen to get back to the core mission of teaching and learning. I recommend this book to anyone in or close to higher ed who has seen the results of many wrong turns and who is afraid the whole system could end up being run by a few elite schools and the big tech giants.

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The author writes clearly and cogently. He is on point in identifying the major trends in the higher education, and proposes some thoughtful solutions, especially more state and local funding. It's easier to propose more state and federal funding, but unclear how you achieve that. The author identifies what's at stake if we fail to fund higher education -- increasing income, wealth and racial inequalities.

Also, the author discusses the work od Scott Galloway, the world's leading Guru on the future of higher education, but seems to misunderstand his point entirely, accusing him of believing big tech ought to take over higher ed. Galloway says that's what's likely to happen unless universities figure out ways of reducing costs and expanding enrollments, but not that this is a desirable outcome. In fact, he laments this openly as an inevitability if schools don't get their act together.

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An illuminating exploration of the crisis of higher education and what can be done about it

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 18, 2020

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I've long admired Warner's column in Inside Higher Education, so I was delighted to see that he’s written a book. The book makes an extremely convincing argument that public education should be made tuition free and student debt needs to be cancelled. I know, that sounded pie-in-the-sky to me, too, but it doesn’t now that Warner has explained the ways these simple steps will address so many of the problems challenging higher education. Warner sounds an alarm about just how dire higher ed's crisis is, and expands our notions of what is possible. A fine and informative book that should be read by anyone who cares about the survival of higher education.

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Steven Volk

Valuable look at higher education today

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 25, 2021

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I've always found Warner's commentary to be useful in understanding the state of higher education. This book doesn't disappoint. Really valuable insight both on how we've gotten where we are in terms of public higher education, and what it can (and should) look like in the future.

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Matthew G. Le Brasseur

Approachable and enlightening.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 5, 2020

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Fascinating look at a possible future of higher education. Well researched and argued, this book is a must read for higher education scholars and practitioners alike.

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Jade

Great Christmas gift!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 22, 2020

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Great gift for those who love higher education!

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