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A tree branch frames a view of a sandy beach with gentle waves and rocky outcrops under a clear blue sky. The ocean stretches to the horizon in the background.
Hope in a Time of FearCivic LifeThe Long Road

Hope in a Time of Fear

Christopher LongChristopher LongApril 30, 2026
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

We Focused on Hope and Candor and Collaboration

Christopher LongChristopher LongAugust 18, 2025
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

Wholeheartedness in a Time of Fear and Uncertainty

Christopher LongChristopher LongMay 17, 2025
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

Finding New Modes of Communicating as Provost

Christopher LongChristopher LongApril 26, 2025
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 OfficeThe Long Road

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

Christopher LongChristopher LongAugust 20, 2024
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-DavidsonLiving

A Letter to Bill Hart-Davidson

Christopher LongChristopher LongMay 3, 2024
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

Using Obsidian Notes to Create Context and Connection for Meaningful Productivity

Christopher LongChristopher LongJanuary 19, 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.
Coalition for the Future AcademyInitiativesThe Long Road

Coalition for the Future Academy

Christopher LongChristopher 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 CenterInitiatives

Ubuntu, Drawing, and A Pilgrimage to the Boggs Center

Christopher LongChristopher 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

Finding the Values in Committee Work

Christopher LongChristopher 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?The Long Road

What Does Religion Sound Like?

Christopher LongChristopher LongJanuary 28, 2023
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 PracticeEducationLiving

Ubuntu As Leadership Practice

Christopher LongChristopher LongDecember 30, 2022
Waves of water caused by drops of water
Toward a More Just and Beautiful FutureEducationThe Long Road

Toward a More Just and Beautiful Future

Christopher LongChristopher LongAugust 16, 2022
Linton Hall at MSU
Revolutionary Dean

Revolutionary Dean

Christopher LongChristopher LongFebruary 25, 2022
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

From Productivity to Meaningful Work

Christopher LongChristopher LongApril 2, 2021
Teal Ribbon on a Tree
Failures to ListenThe Long Road

Failures to Listen

Christopher LongChristopher LongJanuary 24, 2019
Red Cedar
Bonomi, Rothman, and a Human Rights Approach to Sexual Misconduct in Higher EducationThe Long Road

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

Christopher LongChristopher LongSeptember 4, 2018
The Red Cedar River
Open Letter to the College of Arts & LettersThe Long Road

Open Letter to the College of Arts & Letters

Christopher LongChristopher LongJanuary 25, 2018
View of the earth from space
Practicing GratitudeThe Long Road

Practicing Gratitude

Christopher LongChristopher LongOctober 24, 2017
Paths Outside of Linton Hall
Charting a Path to Intellectual Leadership, then Following ItThe Long Road

Charting a Path to Intellectual Leadership, then Following It

Christopher LongChristopher LongMarch 14, 2017
Open Letter on the Executive Order on Immigration

Open Letter on the Executive Order on Immigration

Christopher LongChristopher LongJanuary 30, 2017
Between Beginning and RoutineThe Long Road

Between Beginning and Routine

Christopher LongChristopher LongJanuary 15, 2017
Black and white abstracted image of layers of circles and squares
Critical Diversity in a Digital AgeThe Long Road

Critical Diversity in a Digital Age

Christopher LongChristopher LongOctober 31, 2016
Twitter Icon on a screen
Twitter as a Platform of CollaborationThe Long Road

Twitter as a Platform of Collaboration

Christopher LongChristopher LongSeptember 8, 2016
Finding Your Place, Leaving a MarkEducationThe Long Road

Finding Your Place, Leaving a Mark

Christopher LongChristopher LongAugust 31, 2016
Funnel of stacked books
Investing in Humanities PublishingDigital ScholarshipThe Long Road

Investing in Humanities Publishing

Christopher LongChristopher LongAugust 8, 2016
A grove of pine trees, looking up from ground level, with evening twilight in the background.
MSU ShadowsThe Long Road

MSU Shadows

Christopher LongChristopher LongJuly 1, 2016
Dean Long fist bumps fellow speaker
5 Things That Facilitate Academic CollaborationEducationThe Long Road

5 Things That Facilitate Academic Collaboration

Christopher LongChristopher LongJune 27, 2016
Learning to Play in a More Inclusive KeyEducation

Learning to Play in a More Inclusive Key

Christopher LongChristopher LongApril 25, 2016
Typewriter hammer
Arts & Letters ScholarsThe Long Road

Arts & Letters Scholars

Christopher LongChristopher LongMarch 3, 2016
Roots growing in a brick wall
Practicing Inclusion as a Matter of Institutional HabitThe Long Road

Practicing Inclusion as a Matter of Institutional Habit

Christopher LongChristopher LongFebruary 14, 2016
Young hands holding hops
Engaged ScholarshipEducationThe Long Road

Engaged Scholarship

Christopher LongChristopher LongDecember 24, 2015
Waves of water caused by drops of water
Catalytic OpportunitiesThe Long Road

Catalytic Opportunities

Christopher LongChristopher LongDecember 11, 2015
Corrections in a manuscript
Habits of Public WritingThe Long Road

Habits of Public Writing

Christopher LongChristopher LongDecember 6, 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.
A Living Place of EducationEducationThe Long Road

A Living Place of Education

Christopher LongChristopher LongJuly 28, 2015
The Edge of the Oak OpeningThe Long Road

The Edge of the Oak Opening

Christopher LongChristopher LongJuly 1, 2015
Linton Hall at MSU
Inhabiting a Liminal SpaceEducationLivingLwCHThe Long Road

Inhabiting a Liminal Space

Christopher LongChristopher LongMay 25, 2015
Corrections in a manuscript
A Few Notes on ProductivityThe Long Road

A Few Notes on Productivity

Christopher LongChristopher LongJanuary 19, 2015
Pinned Butterfly
Butterflies PinnedThe Long Road

Butterflies Pinned

Christopher LongChristopher LongJanuary 19, 2015
Deliberating #PSUGenEdEducationThe Long Road

Deliberating #PSUGenEd

Christopher LongChristopher LongSeptember 21, 2014
Beginning Anew with #PSUGenEdThe Long Road

Beginning Anew with #PSUGenEd

Christopher LongChristopher LongMay 18, 2014
On Welcoming philoSOPHIA to Penn StateThe Long Road

On Welcoming philoSOPHIA to Penn State

Christopher LongChristopher LongMay 1, 2014
General Education Reform at Penn StateThe Long Road

General Education Reform at Penn State

Christopher LongChristopher LongApril 15, 2014
#PSUGenEd and the Research EndeavorThe Long Road

#PSUGenEd and the Research Endeavor

Christopher LongChristopher LongApril 10, 2014
Deliberating GenEd Reform at Penn StateThe Long Road

Deliberating GenEd Reform at Penn State

Christopher LongChristopher LongJanuary 28, 2014
Toward a Deliberative University PublicThe Long Road

Toward a Deliberative University Public

Christopher LongChristopher LongNovember 13, 2013
General Education Reform and the Art of ListeningThe Long Road

General Education Reform and the Art of Listening

Christopher LongChristopher LongNovember 3, 2013
Old Main at Penn State - View from inside to columns outside
ALP at Penn State: A Vision of the New Research UniversityVita

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

Christopher LongChristopher LongApril 22, 2012
ALP Fellows at the University of Chicago
ALP at University of Chicago: Virtues of an Education for DemocracyVita

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

Christopher LongChristopher LongFebruary 20, 2012
ALP at Indiana: Herman B. WellsVita

ALP at Indiana: Herman B. Wells

Christopher LongChristopher LongNovember 11, 2011