HigherEd

The Long Road

No Quality Without Equity

In October 2019, I attended a three-day workshop on Driving Institutional Change for Research Assessment Reform jointly convened by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) on the beautiful HHMI campus in Chevy Chase,…

Christopher LongNovember 9, 2019

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

Dean The Long Road

Catalyst of Collaboration

On September 26, 2019, I had the opportunity to address the Michigan State University President’s Council, which includes the Deans Council and the Executive Leadership of the University, about the values-based strategic planning process we…

Christopher LongOctober 7, 2019

The Graduate Experience The Long Road

Performing the Humanities PhD

One of the main affordances of the emergence of digital modes of scholarship in the humanities is the manner in which they have opened the question anew about the relationship between the content of humanities…

Christopher LongJune 23, 2014

The Administrative Life The Liberal Arts The Long Road The 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 LongApril 10, 2014

The Administrative Life The 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 LongNovember 13, 2013

Education Technology The Long Road

Initial Reflections on MOOCs and the College Curriculum

Villemard 1910 - En L'An 2000 - At School Originally uploaded by amphalon As the debate over Massively Open Online Courses, also known by their unfortunate acronym: MOOC, rages on, I thought I would begin…

Christopher LongDecember 19, 2012

Education Technology The Long Road The Undergraduate Experience

Twitter, Community and the First Year Experience

Words do things. What they do, depends on the manner in which they are said, written and received. What they did, and failed to do, last night is something that requires some reflection. That is…

Christopher LongNovember 29, 2012

Academic Technology The Long Road

On Live-Tweeting Your Own Lecture

On Thursday, October 25th, at 4:30 PDT, I will read a paper entitled, Plato and the Politics of Reading at the University of San Francisco. One of the main points of the paper is that reading is fundamentally a…

Christopher LongOctober 20, 2012

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

Grants, Fellowships, Awards The Administrative Life Vita

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

University budgeting and strategic planning was the focus of the final Academic Leadership Program (ALP) sponsored by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) held at Penn State, April 12-14, 2012. No two topics have more…

Christopher LongApril 22, 2012

ALP Fellows at the University of Chicago

Grants, Fellowships, Awards The Administrative Life Vita

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 LongFebruary 20, 2012

Grants, Fellowships, Awards The Administrative Life Vita

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 LongNovember 11, 2011

Academic Education The Long Road

From Engagement to Cooperation

It is widely recognized among educators that student engagement is a key to academic success. Disengaged students erode the social dynamics in the classroom, have a negative impact on their peers and drop out at…

Christopher LongJuly 8, 2010

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