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Practicing Gratitude

Last weekend was homecoming on the Michigan State University campus, and I found myself reflecting on the meaning and significance of gratitude. So many alumni returned to campus to give thanks for all the ways…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongOctober 24, 2017
DeanLivingThe Long Road

Beware the Jabberwocks

Lessons from the Dragon Boat None of us knew quite what to expect on Saturday as we gathered at Hawk Island for our one-hour training session for the Capital City Dragon Boat Race to support the…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongMay 23, 2017
The Administrative LifeThe Liberal Arts

Open Letter on the Executive Order on Immigration

Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff in the College of Arts & Letters: Many of you have written to express your concern about the executive order signed by the President of the United States on January…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJanuary 30, 2017
The Administrative LifeThe Long Road

Twitter as a Platform of Collaboration

Whenever I talk to faculty and students about the use of social media in the academy, I advocate for a community building approach. The idea is relatively simple: communication has the power to enrich or…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongSeptember 8, 2016
DeanEducationThe Administrative LifeThe Long RoadThe Undergraduate Experience

Finding Your Place, Leaving a Mark

Dear College of Arts & Letters Class of 2020, Welcome to Michigan State University! As you begin your journey in the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University, let me tell you a…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongAugust 31, 2016
Civic LifeThe Liberal ArtsThe Long Road

Responding to Complexity with Nuance and Grace

In the wake of last week’s violence, we have again become caught up in the fraught dichotomy into which public discourse always seems to force us. It is as if somehow the human capacity to…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJuly 14, 2016
The Administrative LifeThe Long Road

MSU Shadows

A year ago today, as I began my tenure as Dean of the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University, I made reference to a passage by Peter Raible, one that draws from…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJuly 1, 2016
EducationThe Administrative LifeThe Long Road

5 Things That Facilitate Academic Collaboration

Lists are the current vernacular of the internet. There is even a social media site, li.st, wholly dedicated to the creation and sharing of lists of all sorts. So, as I considered how I might…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJune 27, 2016
The Administrative LifeThe Long Road

Habits of Public Writing

This post on Medium initiates an experiment in public writing designed to facilitate transparency and refine my thinking in relation to issues I face in my role as Dean of the College of Arts and…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongDecember 6, 2015
The Liberal ArtsThe Long Road

The Liberal Arts and Sciences and the 21st Century Land Grant Mission

At the beginning of the Physics, Aristotle captures something of the essence of the liberal arts and sciences as an endeavor. This path from the surface of things to a deeper understanding of their nature…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongFebruary 16, 2015
The Administrative LifeThe Long Road

A Few Notes on Productivity

I was asked to facilitate a discussion about productivity and administration with my Associate Dean colleagues on the Academic Council for Undergraduate Education (ACUE) at Penn State. Being something of a productivity geek, I jumped…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJanuary 19, 2015
The Administrative LifeThe Liberal ArtsThe Long Road

Butterflies Pinned

In the winter of 1988, during my freshman year at Wittenberg University, I took Professor Warren Copeland’s Introduction to Ethics: Racism course. This course and its sister, Advanced Ethics: Racism, which I took the following…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongJanuary 19, 2015
The Administrative LifeThe Liberal ArtsThe Long RoadThe Undergraduate Experience

General Education Reform at Penn State

The Information Technology unit at Penn State holds IT Matters breakfasts a few times a year. This semester I joined colleagues on stage to talk about my work and how it intersects with IT at…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongApril 15, 2014
The Administrative LifeThe Liberal ArtsThe Long RoadThe Undergraduate Experience

#PSUGenEd and the Research Endeavor

We at Penn State are engaged in an intense, ongoing and, in my view, very healthy dialogue about General Education reform. In order to integrate the research endeavor into the undergraduate experience, we ought to…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongApril 10, 2014
The Administrative LifeThe Long Road

Toward a Deliberative University Public

I have always sought to integrate my philosophical commitments into my administrative life. So, when Noëlle McAfee came to campus to deliver a paper entitled, "Deliberation and the Affective Dimensions of Public Will-formation," I found…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongNovember 13, 2013
Grants, Fellowships, AwardsThe Administrative LifeVita

ALP at University of Chicago: Virtues of an Education for Democracy

In her address to the Committee on Institutional Cooperation's Academic Leadership Program at the University of Chicago last Thursday, Martha Nussbaum offered a compelling defense of a liberal arts education. She advocated for an education…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongFebruary 20, 2012
Presentation: OtherPresentationsVita

HASTAC 2011: Digital Scholarship and the Institutional Structure

ANN ARBOR, MI - The story I told at the 2011 meeting of the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) conference is rooted in my pedagogical practices of using digital media technology to…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongDecember 2, 2011
Grants, Fellowships, AwardsThe Administrative LifeVita

ALP at Indiana: Herman B. Wells

Sometimes without looking, one finds a paradigm - an example that can serve as a model. Last week I visited Indiana University as a one of Penn State's Academic Leadership Fellows in the Academic Leadership Program of…
Christopher Long
Christopher LongNovember 11, 2011
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