Dean – Christopher P. Long

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

May 3, 2024

By Christopher Long

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.

Coalition for the Future Academy

January 18, 2024

By Christopher Long

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

October 21, 2023

By Christopher Long

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

March 16, 2023

By Christopher Long

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?

January 28, 2023

By Christopher Long

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

January 14, 2023

By Christopher Long

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

November 21, 2022

By Christopher Long

Questions for the Class of 2025

To the Class of 2025: Let Us Begin Again Together

August 31, 2021

By Christopher Long

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

The Promise and Perils of Democracy

January 7, 2021

By Christopher Long

American Flags lined up against a yellow building

Register to Vote

September 22, 2020

By Christopher Long

Header of MSU campus in the fall.

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

August 31, 2020

By Christopher Long

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

Open Letter to Our College of Arts & Letters Community

June 5, 2020

By Christopher Long

To the Class of 2020

May 7, 2020

By Christopher Long

Field of wild flowers

Deepening Connection in a Time of Distancing

April 29, 2020

By Christopher Long

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

Catalyst of Collaboration

October 7, 2019

By Christopher Long

Dean Long with a photo of himself

To the Class of 2023: Embrace the Adventure

August 27, 2019

By Christopher Long

Connected Ropes

Toward a Culture of Care

April 24, 2019

By Christopher Long

Teal Ribbon on a Tree

Failures to Listen

January 24, 2019

By Christopher Long

Survivors names painted on the MSU Rock

Open Letter Regarding MSU Interim President Transition

January 17, 2019

By Christopher Long

Linton Hall Through A Glass Ball

Living Values

November 30, 2018

By Christopher Long

Six Images of Resilience

2018 Dean’s Report – Resilience

November 16, 2018

By Christopher Long

Original Seal of the Michigan Agriculture College

To the Class of 2022: MSU is an Open Door

August 28, 2018

By Christopher Long

Linton Hall

Open Letter to College of Arts & Letters Alumni and Friends

May 24, 2018

By Christopher Long

Tree Roots

Cultivating a Culture of Trust

April 12, 2018

By Christopher Long

The Red Cedar River

Open Letter to the College of Arts & Letters

January 25, 2018

By Christopher Long

College of Arts & Letters Blueprint

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

January 15, 2018

By Christopher Long

Weaving Loom

Practices of Weaving: Arts & Letters at MSU

November 14, 2017

By Christopher Long

View of the earth from space

Practicing Gratitude

October 24, 2017

By Christopher Long

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

August 25, 2017

By Christopher Long

Red Cedar

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

July 19, 2017

By Christopher Long

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

June 26, 2017

By Christopher Long

Beware the Jabberwocks

May 23, 2017

By Christopher Long

To Teach and Delight

April 14, 2017

By Christopher Long

Paths Outside of Linton Hall

Charting a Path to Intellectual Leadership, then Following It

March 14, 2017

By Christopher Long

Finding Your Place, Leaving a Mark

August 31, 2016

By Christopher Long

Funnel of stacked books

Investing in Humanities Publishing

August 8, 2016

By Christopher Long

Learning to Play in a More Inclusive Key

April 25, 2016

By Christopher Long

Painting of Diogenes by Gerome

I am allergic to cynicism.

January 12, 2016

By Christopher Long

Paths to Explore

September 7, 2015

By Christopher Long

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

A Living Place of Education

July 28, 2015

By Christopher Long

The Edge of the Oak Opening

July 1, 2015

By Christopher Long