Kathleen Fitzpatrick
@kfitz.info
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.
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π£ EXCITEMENT ALERT π 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.
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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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November 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
π£ EXCITEMENT ALERT π 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.
π: about.hcommons.org/2025/11/17/k...
π: about.hcommons.org/2025/11/17/k...
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/)
October 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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/)
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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...
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...
October 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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...
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...
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With @kfitz.info as keynote!
The Lower Decks returns. We've launched our CFP for The Lower Decks 2.0. Check it out here: www.openlibhums.org/news/859/
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The Lower Decks 2.0: A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing
Theme: Users and Community Location: Dublin City University Library, Glasnevin Campus, Dublin, & hybrid streaming online Dates: 21st β 22nd May 2026 Cost: Free Sign-up to attend Janeway is an β¦
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September 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
With @kfitz.info as keynote!
(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.)
September 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
(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
Knowledge Commons β Open access, open source, open to all
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September 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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
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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September 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Friends don't let friends use academia dot edu. kfitz.info/academia-not...
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.
September 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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.
β’ National Resource Centers
β’ Foreign Language and Area Studies Program
β’ Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Programs
β’ International Research and Studies
β’ Centers for International Business Education
β’ Language Resource Centers
β’ American Overseas Research Centers
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β’ Foreign Language and Area Studies Program
β’ Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Programs
β’ International Research and Studies
β’ Centers for International Business Education
β’ Language Resource Centers
β’ American Overseas Research Centers
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September 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
β’ National Resource Centers
β’ Foreign Language and Area Studies Program
β’ Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Programs
β’ International Research and Studies
β’ Centers for International Business Education
β’ Language Resource Centers
β’ American Overseas Research Centers
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β’ Foreign Language and Area Studies Program
β’ Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Programs
β’ International Research and Studies
β’ Centers for International Business Education
β’ Language Resource Centers
β’ 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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September 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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/)
September 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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/)
New post from kfitz.info: "Success, at Last"
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August 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
New post from kfitz.info: "Success, at Last"
https://kfitz.info/success-at-last/
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Itβs been way too busy around here so I havenβt posted, butβ¦my new book came out last week! Itβs 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 β 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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August 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Itβs been way too busy around here so I havenβt posted, butβ¦my new book came out last week! Itβs called One Classroom at a Time: How Better Teaching Can Make College More Equitable. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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New post from kfitz.info: "Longevity and Sustainability"
https://kfitz.info/longevity/
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August 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
New post from kfitz.info: "Longevity and Sustainability"
https://kfitz.info/longevity/
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For real, you can just join.
Then publish.
Then publish.
First Steps: Getting Started with the Commons β Help & Support
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August 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
For real, you can just join.
Then publish.
Then publish.
I have been fighting with the process of setting up a server on my home network for what is now literally months. (I keep having to walk away from the project because of that whole βday jobβ thing.) Advice would not be unsolicited! kfitz.info/networking-c... #homelab #dns #proxmox #nginx
Networking Continued
The long-running and erratically updated blog of Kathleen Fitzpatrick.
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August 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I have been fighting with the process of setting up a server on my home network for what is now literally months. (I keep having to walk away from the project because of that whole βday jobβ thing.) Advice would not be unsolicited! kfitz.info/networking-c... #homelab #dns #proxmox #nginx
New post from kfitz.info: "Networking Continued"
https://kfitz.info/networking-continued/
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August 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
New post from kfitz.info: "Networking Continued"
https://kfitz.info/networking-continued/
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https://kfitz.info/networking-continued/
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Level is good. A significant increase, and a reinstatement of staff and programs, would be better!
August 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Level is good. A significant increase, and a reinstatement of staff and programs, would be better!
Fantastic. Now do the NEH, the NEA, and IMLS.
More good news:
"Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million *increase* to the budget of the NIH on Thursday, in an Appropriations Committee vote that represents a clear rebuke of President Trumpβs plan to dramatically reduce the agencyβs spending."
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"Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million *increase* to the budget of the NIH on Thursday, in an Appropriations Committee vote that represents a clear rebuke of President Trumpβs plan to dramatically reduce the agencyβs spending."
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Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administrationβs proposed 40% cut
Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday
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August 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Fantastic. Now do the NEH, the NEA, and IMLS.
If I had been trying to turn something off, I would maybe get it. But I was trying to turn something ON. Sheesh.
July 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
If I had been trying to turn something off, I would maybe get it. But I was trying to turn something ON. Sheesh.
WTF am I supposed to do with this dialogue box? Which of βCancel" and "Turn Offβ means "continueβ???
July 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
WTF am I supposed to do with this dialogue box? Which of βCancel" and "Turn Offβ means "continueβ???
This is a must-read, not least for its no-holds-barred kicker. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
Opinion | The Elite Panic at the Heart of Liberal Attacks on Mamdani
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July 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This is a must-read, not least for its no-holds-barred kicker. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
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MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, & @historians.org are pleased by the injunction in the Author's Guild case, preventing reallocation of grant funds, but are disappointed in the ruling on our injunction. We remain steadfast in working to stop the unlawful dismantling of the NEH. www.mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit
July 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, & @historians.org are pleased by the injunction in the Author's Guild case, preventing reallocation of grant funds, but are disappointed in the ruling on our injunction. We remain steadfast in working to stop the unlawful dismantling of the NEH. www.mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit
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"without my humanities leanings and studies, I would not have been a very good scientist. My humanities classes were a master class in creativity, envisioning new futures and how to think." bit.ly/4of8P8D
Opinion: Gutting humanities signals the end of innovation in business and STEM
Lose the humanities, and you lose the very ground of science and business that depend on it.
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July 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"without my humanities leanings and studies, I would not have been a very good scientist. My humanities classes were a master class in creativity, envisioning new futures and how to think." bit.ly/4of8P8D