Dean – Christopher P. Long

BillHD makes a gesture to a whiteboard off camera. He is sitting around a table with people listening to the point he is making. Sonja is watching Bill with her hand to her face, thinking.

A Letter to Bill Hart-Davidson

Christopher LongMay 3, 2024

A wooden gate framed by two columns of beige brick covered by green vines with red blossoms opens onto a tiered garden with a birdbath in the center. Off in the distance beyond the garden there are trees in full autumn folliage. The path leading to the bird bath is lined with purple flowers on this sunny November day in the Dumbarton Oaks gardens.

Initiatives The Long Road

Coalition for the Future Academy

Christopher LongJanuary 18, 2024

A diverse group of people of wide-ranging ages stand in a courtyard in front of a colorful mural of Grace Lee and James Boggs with young people. A young Grace Lee Boggs is in yellow, holding a megaphone to her mouth. Jimmie Boggs, on the right, is in a dark jacket, hands folded in front of me, listening. There is a diverse group of young people between them.

Ubuntu, Drawing, and A Pilgrimage to the Boggs Center

Christopher LongOctober 21, 2023

In the foreground in focus are white values cards with black letters laying on a dark wooden table with words like "Support for Failure," "Holistic," "Accessibility,"Excellence," "Appreciation," written on them. We read the cards upside-down as we look down the table, our perspective at table-level looking toward a woman in a black mask leaning over a computer pointing to something as participants around the table look toward the laptop on the table. The laptop and the people are out of focus at the depth of field is short and the focus is on the cards nearest us on the table.

Finding the Values in Committee Work

Christopher LongMarch 16, 2023

Two people sit in gray chairs with dark wooden legs on a small stage with wooden floors. There is a round coffee table made of dark and light wood between them on which is a microphone with a pop filter, papers to which the speakers are referring, and two bottles of water. Amy DeRogatis is on the left, speaking and smiling slightly as she looks down at her paper and talks into the microphone. On the right is Isaac Weiner, grinning broadly as if laughing. On the left of the stage is a fake white tree with cotton "snow" underneath and white lights on the branches. The wall behind the stage is white, broken up with gray/blue squares of fabric designed to dampen the sound. The microphone is attached by a wire that goes to an amplifier that is just visible on the right, behind Isaac. There is a blue light coming out of the bottom of the amplifier.

What Does Religion Sound Like?

Christopher LongJanuary 28, 2023

Selfie on stage at the Kellogg Center after the 43rd MLK Dinner at which LeConté Dill gave the keynote. The selfie is taken by Chris Long, who is on the left, with, from left to right, Ruth Nicole Brown, LeConté Dill, Chamara Kwakye, Gianina Strother, and Yvonne Morris. In the background are rows of empty round tables with white tablecloths and black chairs around them.

Power, Love, Justice, and Joy

Christopher LongJanuary 14, 2023

African and African American Studies students standing in a row, from left to right: Amber McAddley, Morgan Braswell, Jhala Martin, and Ayodele Uhuru. They are listening to Jhala read from a piece of paper with a microphone in her hand. Photo by Ryan Frederick.

A Place of Wholeness

Christopher LongNovember 21, 2022

Questions for the Class of 2025

To the Class of 2025: Let Us Begin Again Together

Christopher LongAugust 31, 2021

Compass with directions in the foreground with a distant and unfocused image of the White House in the distance.

Civic Life The Long Road

The Promise and Perils of Democracy

Christopher LongJanuary 7, 2021

American Flags lined up against a yellow building

Register to Vote

Christopher LongSeptember 22, 2020

Header of MSU campus in the fall.

To the Class of 2024: Embarking on an Education for Action

Christopher LongAugust 31, 2020

James Baldwin - "I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do."

Open Letter to Our College of Arts & Letters Community

Christopher LongJune 5, 2020

To the Class of 2020

Christopher LongMay 7, 2020

Field of wild flowers

Deepening Connection in a Time of Distancing

Christopher LongApril 29, 2020

Aerial view of the center of MSU campus with intersecting pathways and trees.

Catalyst of Collaboration

Christopher LongOctober 7, 2019

Dean Long with a photo of himself

To the Class of 2023: Embrace the Adventure

Christopher LongAugust 27, 2019

Connected Ropes

Toward a Culture of Care

Christopher LongApril 24, 2019

Teal Ribbon on a Tree

Failures to Listen

Christopher LongJanuary 24, 2019

Survivors names painted on the MSU Rock

Open Letter Regarding MSU Interim President Transition

Christopher LongJanuary 17, 2019

Linton Hall Through A Glass Ball

Living Values

Christopher LongNovember 30, 2018

Six Images of Resilience

2018 Dean’s Report – Resilience

Christopher LongNovember 16, 2018

Original Seal of the Michigan Agriculture College

To the Class of 2022: MSU is an Open Door

Christopher LongAugust 28, 2018

Linton Hall

Open Letter to College of Arts & Letters Alumni and Friends

Christopher LongMay 24, 2018

Tree Roots

Cultivating a Culture of Trust

Christopher LongApril 12, 2018

The Red Cedar River

Open Letter to the College of Arts & Letters

Christopher LongJanuary 25, 2018

College of Arts & Letters Blueprint

Life’s Blueprints: Designing the Structure of Our Professional Lives

Christopher LongJanuary 15, 2018

Weaving Loom

Practices of Weaving: Arts & Letters at MSU

Christopher LongNovember 14, 2017

View of the earth from space

Practicing Gratitude

Christopher LongOctober 24, 2017

To the Class of 2021: Be Resilient, Like a Tree

Christopher LongAugust 25, 2017

Red Cedar

The Emergence of Our Vision: Public Education Rooted in the Liberal Arts

Christopher LongJuly 19, 2017

The Liberal Arts at the Heart of the MSU Land Grant Mission

Christopher LongJune 26, 2017

Living The Long Road

Beware the Jabberwocks

Christopher LongMay 23, 2017

To Teach and Delight

Christopher LongApril 14, 2017

Paths Outside of Linton Hall

Charting a Path to Intellectual Leadership, then Following It

Christopher LongMarch 14, 2017

Education The Long Road

Finding Your Place, Leaving a Mark

Christopher LongAugust 31, 2016

Funnel of stacked books

Digital Scholarship The Long Road

Investing in Humanities Publishing

Christopher LongAugust 8, 2016

Learning to Play in a More Inclusive Key

Christopher LongApril 25, 2016

Painting of Diogenes by Gerome

I am allergic to cynicism.

Christopher LongJanuary 12, 2016

Paths to Explore

Christopher LongSeptember 7, 2015

Green grass leading up to the beautiful Katsura Tree in the Beal Botanical Garden. There are purple flowers in the foreground on the right.

Education The Long Road

A Living Place of Education

Christopher LongJuly 28, 2015

The Edge of the Oak Opening

Christopher LongJuly 1, 2015