Topics Discussed in this Episode:

  • Kathleen's career moves from faculty at Pomona College to Associate Executive Director at the Modern Language Association (MLA) to faculty and administrator at Michigan State University.
  • Putting ideas related to publishing and scholarly communication into place on a national scale in her role at MLA.
  • Working with institutions that are interested in implementing lessons from Generous Thinking in their strategic plans.
  • Working with faculty to explore the possibilities for how their work might contribute to a richer, more open public sphere.
  • When re-evaluating reappointment, promotion, and tenure guidelines, thinking about public engagement first rather than as a separate outreach category.
  • The rise of the #GenerousThinking movement on Twitter as people share their stories on how they have implemented generous thinking in their work and personal lives.
  • The HuMetricsHSS initiative focused on rethinking prestige economies of academia and thinking about how values like openness could be incorporated into assessment.
  • Using generous thinking as an approach to creating equity and expanding opportunity for others in the academy.
  • There is no quality without equality.

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Music Credits: “Come Right Here” by Tendinite, licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND license.

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