The Administrative Life – Christopher P. Long

A group of sixteen adults, diverse in age and gender, pose together outside on a wooden deck in front of a building with large windows and trees reflected in the glass. All are smiling at the camera.

We Focused on Hope and Candor and Collaboration

August 18, 2025

By Christopher Long

Provost Long with six University of Oregon leaders in advising in business attire smile for a group selfie in a meeting room with large windows, trees and water outside. Sticky notes cover part of the window, and a blank flip chart stands nearby.

Wholeheartedness in a Time of Fear and Uncertainty

May 17, 2025

By Christopher Long

Rapids on the Willamette River fill the frame of this image, taken from the South side of the river, looking North with evergreens and blue skies and wispy clouds in the background.

Finding New Modes of Communicating as Provost

April 26, 2025

By Christopher Long

The view from Spencer's Butte above Eugene, Oregon. A grassy pathway leads to a bank of pine trees in the middle distance. Beyond the trees and far below lies Eugene, OR. In the distance are mountains, the blue sky filled with gray and white clouds.

A Pivotal Week in the Life of the Provost’s Office

August 20, 2024

By Christopher 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

$Looking up from the ground through the tall Redwoods of the Cathedral Grove in Muir Woods in California. The sky is seen refracted through the branches of the enormous redwoods.$

Using Obsidian Notes to Create Context and Connection for Meaningful Productivity

January 19, 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

The group is gathered around Queen Cherice Harrison-Nelson who is on the right, with Toni Gordon leaning in next to her, Ural Grant on her right, Jessica Reed next to Ural, and in the back, Sharieka Botex and Marquis Taylor. They are in a conference room where the presentation on prioritizing joy in graduate education was given.

Ubuntu As Leadership Practice

December 30, 2022

By Christopher Long

Waves of water caused by drops of water

Toward a More Just and Beautiful Future

August 16, 2022

By Christopher Long

Linton Hall at MSU

Revolutionary Dean

February 25, 2022

By Christopher Long

Red Cedar River in Winter, white snow covers the trees on both sides of the river which is beginning to ice over from the banks.

From Productivity to Meaningful Work

April 2, 2021

By Christopher Long

Teal Ribbon on a Tree

Failures to Listen

January 24, 2019

By Christopher Long

Red Cedar

Bonomi, Rothman, and a Human Rights Approach to Sexual Misconduct in Higher Education

September 4, 2018

By Christopher Long

The Red Cedar River

Open Letter to the College of Arts & Letters

January 25, 2018

By Christopher Long

View of the earth from space

Practicing Gratitude

October 24, 2017

By Christopher Long

Paths Outside of Linton Hall

Charting a Path to Intellectual Leadership, then Following It

March 14, 2017

By Christopher Long

Open Letter on the Executive Order on Immigration

January 30, 2017

By Christopher Long

Between Beginning and Routine

January 15, 2017

By Christopher Long

Black and white abstracted image of layers of circles and squares

Critical Diversity in a Digital Age

October 31, 2016

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

A grove of pine trees, looking up from ground level, with evening twilight in the background.

MSU Shadows

July 1, 2016

By Christopher Long

Dean Long fist bumps fellow speaker

5 Things That Facilitate Academic Collaboration

June 27, 2016

By Christopher Long

Learning to Play in a More Inclusive Key

April 25, 2016

By Christopher Long

Typewriter hammer

Arts & Letters Scholars

March 3, 2016

By Christopher Long

Roots growing in a brick wall

Practicing Inclusion as a Matter of Institutional Habit

February 14, 2016

By Christopher Long

Young hands holding hops

Engaged Scholarship

December 24, 2015

By Christopher Long

Waves of water caused by drops of water

Catalytic Opportunities

December 11, 2015

By Christopher Long

Corrections in a manuscript

Habits of Public Writing

December 6, 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

Linton Hall at MSU

Inhabiting a Liminal Space

May 25, 2015

By Christopher Long

Corrections in a manuscript

A Few Notes on Productivity

January 19, 2015

By Christopher Long

Pinned Butterfly

Butterflies Pinned

January 19, 2015

By Christopher Long

Deliberating #PSUGenEd

September 21, 2014

By Christopher Long

Beginning Anew with #PSUGenEd

May 18, 2014

By Christopher Long

On Welcoming philoSOPHIA to Penn State

May 1, 2014

By Christopher Long

General Education Reform at Penn State

April 15, 2014

By Christopher Long

#PSUGenEd and the Research Endeavor

April 10, 2014

By Christopher Long

Deliberating GenEd Reform at Penn State

January 28, 2014

By Christopher Long

Toward a Deliberative University Public

November 13, 2013

By Christopher Long

General Education Reform and the Art of Listening

November 3, 2013

By Christopher Long

Old Main at Penn State - View from inside to columns outside

ALP at Penn State: A Vision of the New Research University

April 22, 2012

By Christopher Long

ALP Fellows at the University of Chicago

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

February 20, 2012

By Christopher Long

ALP at Indiana: Herman B. Wells

November 11, 2011

By Christopher Long