Kathleen Fitzpatrick

@kfitz.info

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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.

The KFitz that is me is described as a digital humanities scholar with 745 strength, in the top 4% of... inclusion in LLMs. *sigh*
"I'm delighted to be here today to talk with you a bit about *Leading Generously*. There are multiple origin stories for this book, but one of them is seeded in a protracted leadership crisis at my own institution, Michigan State University. I'm not going to re-tell the whole story today, but instead just note that in the eight-plus years that I have worked there, MSU has had six presidents and five provosts, and of the 19 deans across the campus, 12 have been in their roles for fewer than 3 years, and 16 for fewer than 4. The institution has also experienced massive conflict with and within our board of trustees, and all of us are living through a resulting melange of anger and despair and exhaustion that seriously inhibits our ability to focus on the things that are most important to us."
A screenshot of a notification in this here app telling me that laws in my location require me to prove I’m an adult in order access “certain features.” I am on a plane at the gate in Detroit.
A macOS 26 dialogue box reading “If you continue, items will be removed from the Desktop and the Documents folder on this Mac and will remain available in iCloud Drive. New items added to your Desktop or your Documents folder on this Mac will no longer be stored in iCloud Drive.” Two buttons are presented: Cancel and Turn Off. Grrrrr.
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The New Orleans grits bowl: creamy grits, cheddar, bacon, poached eggs. Plus a good cup of coffee.