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<smaller>Kathleen Fitzpatrick // @kfitz@hcommons.social // kfitz@msu.edu</smaller><br />
<small>http://presentations.kfitz.info/tamu260205.html</small>
Note: Thank you so much for that introduction! I am delighted to be here with you today. My talk is in large part drawn from my last two books, each of which wrestles with the need for deep institutional change in order to save higher education in the US and elsewhere from the forces -- external and internal -- that are undermining it. But before I jump in, a couple of warnings. The first is that there's a little language coming up -- I usually include a warning like this when I'm doing a virtual presentation, in case listeners have little ones in the background, but I nevertheless feel a little self-conscious about the language I'm about to use on a Jesuit campus! But the second warning is, quite frankly, that I'm pretty pissed off right now. I have the joy and the privilege of working in a college that is genuinely trying to build a culture of care for everyone that works for or with it, but that college is embedded in a university that is filled with mistrust, that is replacing transparency with obfuscation, and that has over and over again actively undermined the care we all need in order to function. I'll hope that in what's ahead I can work through some of the anger and come back around to thinking generously with you about the possibilities ahead.
Note: Thank you so much for that introduction! I am delighted to be here with you today. My talk is in large part drawn from my last two books, each of which wrestles with the need for deep institutional change in order to save higher education in the US and elsewhere from the forces -- external and internal -- that are undermining it. But before I jump in, a couple of warnings. The first is that there's a little language coming up -- I usually include a warning like this when I'm doing a virtual presentation, in case listeners have little ones in the background, but I nevertheless feel a little self-conscious about the language ahead given what feel like the growing risks of critical speech on campus. But the second warning is, quite frankly, that I'm pretty pissed off right now. I have the joy and the privilege of working in a college that is genuinely trying to build a culture of care for everyone that works for or with it, but that college is embedded in a university that is filled with mistrust, that is replacing transparency with obfuscation, and that has over and over again actively undermined the care we all need in order to function. I'll hope that in what's ahead I can work through some of the anger and come back around to thinking generously with you about the possibilities ahead.
But the anger first. In 2020, just before everything began shutting down, sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom posted a thread on Twitter in which she talked about the things she tells early career Black scholars who seek her advice on surviving in the academy. These two tweets in particular caught my attention: