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Kathleen Fitzpatrick
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Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University. Director, Knowledge Commons. Author, LEADING GENEROUSLY. All opinions my own and not those of my employer, especially the sweary ones. .. more

Kathleen Fitzpatrick is an American scholar of digital humanities and media studies. She is the Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English at Michigan State University. .. more

Computer science 21%
Philosophy 13%

Ugggggh url typo: works.hcommons.org
Knowledge Commons – Open access, open source, open to all
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KCWorks also mints DOIs! works.hvommons.org

I hope that you'll consider joining Knowledge Commons and supporting our mission: transforming the global knowledge ecosystem by providing the space and the tools for building solidarity among knowledge creators.
Knowledge Commons is not just a platform — we’re a coalition. And that coalition needs you. Read more on our blog and get involved today: about.hcommons.org/2025/12/18/j...

Knowledge Commons is not just a platform — we’re a coalition. And that coalition needs you. The tl;dr: We need to raise a significant amount... (New post from kfitz.info: "Join the KC Coalition" https://kfitz.info/join-kc-coalition/)
Knowledge Commons is not just a platform — we’re a coalition. And that coalition needs you. Read more on our blog and get involved today: about.hcommons.org/2025/12/18/j...

So, so well deserved! Congratulations @brettbobley.bsky.social!
Congratulations to 2025 AUPresses Stand UP Award recipient Brett Bobley, former director @neh-odh.bsky.social. This award recognizes his decades-long leadership that empowered university presses to use digital technologies to experiment, collaborate & reach new audiences. https://bit.ly/3XJ3ydj
Congratulations to 2025 AUPresses Stand UP Award recipient Brett Bobley, former director @neh-odh.bsky.social. This award recognizes his decades-long leadership that empowered university presses to use digital technologies to experiment, collaborate & reach new audiences. https://bit.ly/3XJ3ydj
Knowledge Commons NEEDS your support in order to build a more open internet. This #GivingTuesday, we would love for you to join us in ensuring that the over 60,000+ users who have discovered KC are able to help sustain our team’s work into the future. Donate today: givingto.msu.edu/causes-to-su...

We’re building a coalition of individuals and institutions that believe in research for the common good. Help support us so that we can continue to support you!
🧵 (1/3) Happy #GivingTuesday! Knowledge Commons needs the support of our users more than ever to keep our services open and available to everyone. By donating to KC, you are directly helping our team keep doing our work. You can read more on our blog: about.hcommons.org/2025/12/02/a...
A Giving Tuesday Call to Action
We know what you’re thinking: not another Giving Tuesday blog post. Believe us, we wish we didn’t have to add our voice to this week’s chorus, but here we are.
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🧵 (1/3) Happy #GivingTuesday! Knowledge Commons needs the support of our users more than ever to keep our services open and available to everyone. By donating to KC, you are directly helping our team keep doing our work. You can read more on our blog: about.hcommons.org/2025/12/02/a...
A Giving Tuesday Call to Action
We know what you’re thinking: not another Giving Tuesday blog post. Believe us, we wish we didn’t have to add our voice to this week’s chorus, but here we are.
about.hcommons.org

On my way to Cambridge for Publish, Review, Curate. coar-repositories.org/news-updates... It’s a gloriously sunny 49F — a nice if surprising change from the 18F I left in Detroit last night!
Publish, Review, Curate: Turning scholarly publishing on its head
Tired of long delays, expensive fees, and a lack of transparency about editorial decisions when publishing your articles? Join us at King’s College, Cambridge on December 3rd for an in-depth …
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What features, exactly?

I have never been more sad to say “that tracks.”

Thinking about you, Sharon. ❤️
📣 EXCITEMENT ALERT 🎉 The KCWorks on WP plugin is now available! This block-based plugin makes it easy to embed citations from the KCWorks repository directly on your WordPress pages, whether you are creating a website on KC or a self-hosted WP installation.

🔗: about.hcommons.org/2025/11/17/k...
KCWorks on WP Plugin Launches on Knowledge Commons
The KCWorks on WP plugin is now available on Knowledge Commons! This block-based plugin makes it easy to embed citations from the KCWorks repository directly on your WordPress pages, whether you are using the KCSites platform or a self-hosted WordPress installation. KCWorks is an enterprise-grade repository for academic research, collaboration tools, and publishing support for scholars and institutions.
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I had the privilege last week of speaking at the International Association of Universities conference, held at the University of Rwanda. It was a long... (New post from kfitz.info: "Trust in Science: Accessibility, Persistence, and the Public Good" https://kfitz.info/trust-in-science/)
YES! This is such excellent news. Utrecht University now supports Knowledge Commons.

PLEASE ask YOUR library today if they will consider supporting us. We are free to all to use, but we NEED university support to make that possible.

about.hcommons.org/2025/10/13/u...

(It occurs to me to mention: we've gotten hammered by AI scraper bots for the last couple of days. If you run into any slowness or other weird behavior, be patient; we're playing whack-a-mole as fast as we can.)

Join us instead at Knowledge Commons, a nonprofit, community governed platform for collaboration and communication among knowledge creators across the disciplines and around the world. hcommons.org
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Friends don't let friends use academia dot edu. kfitz.info/academia-not...
Academia, Not Edu
The long-running and erratically updated blog of Kathleen Fitzpatrick.
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The rationale is familiar; these programs are "not in the best interest of the Federal Government." This determination is astonishingly short-sighted and will have deep ramifications for the US's already difficult engagements with the rest of the world.

• National Resource Centers
• Foreign Language and Area Studies Program
• Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Programs
• International Research and Studies
• Centers for International Business Education
• Language Resource Centers
• American Overseas Research Centers
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Yesterday, seven programs offered through the International and Foreign Language Education Office of the Department of Education, which administers Title VI and Fulbright-Hays funding, were "non-continued" across the board, including:
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Over the last several months, I've been engaged in a project designed to bring a bunch of the stuff I'm hosting in various places around... (New post from kfitz.info: "Learning" https://kfitz.info/learning/)

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New post from kfitz.info: "Success, at Last"
https://kfitz.info/success-at-last/
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It’s been way too busy around here so I haven’t posted, but…my new book came out last week! It’s called One Classroom at a Time: How Better Teaching Can Make College More Equitable. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
One Classroom at a Time — Harvard University Press
Save 25% now with code BTS25.From the author of The Missing Course, an essential guide to pedagogy that serves all members of an ever more diverse undergraduate population.A century ago, a typical US ...
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New post from kfitz.info: "Longevity and Sustainability"
https://kfitz.info/longevity/
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For real, you can just join.

Then publish.
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