Fitzpatrick, K. (2019). Generous Thinking – A Radical Approach to Saving the University. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.
It is time to rethink both what universities (and colleges for that matter) stand for according to Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities at Michigan State University. She challenges faculty members to seek out constructive, collaborative and creative routes for their work rather than engage in the competitiveness of academic life. She wants more emphasis on listening, engaging, sharing, co-operating and more community engagement both within the “community” of the institution and the communities in which the university is placed. One reviewer has called this book “audacious”, though it must be said that this conversation has been taking place since Cardinal Newman (now a Saint) explored the question of what is a university. She supports Newman.
