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The Liberal Art Endeavor: Thick Collegiality and General Education In this introduction to issues 1-2 of volume 66 of the Journal of General Education, Sophia Pavlos and I articulate of the meaning and importance of thick collegiality for the…
Living Values
In the open letter we wrote to the College of Arts & Letters community in January 2018, we promised to look critically at ourselves, recognize our failures, and rebuild the trust that is required of us. This commitment has led to an intense period of critical self-reflection in the Dean’s Office and across the College in which we have considered the core values we aspire to embody in our work and…
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2018 Dean's Report - Resilience
2018 Dean’s Report – Resilience
Dear College of Arts & Letters Students, Faculty, Staff, Alumni, and Friends,
For generations, the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University have demonstrated the capacity to be resilient in the face of adversity. This resilience is the theme of our 2018 Dean’s Report.
I invite you to explore the Dean’s Report, a digital experience that…
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Practicing Public Philosophy
Situating the Public Philosophy Journal at the intersection of philosophy and questions of public concern, this essay articulates how the journal hopes to practice public scholarship through a formative review process designed to create communities capable of enriching public life.
This is the inaugural essay in the inaugural issue of the Public Philosophy Journal.
Long, Christopher P.…
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AGLS Keynote - Practicing the Arts of Liberty
AGLS Keynote – Practicing the Arts of Liberty
At the heart of my keynote address to the 2018 Association of General and Liberal Studies in Pittsburgh, PA is this idea:
The intellectual and ethical habits we need to transform higher education are the same as those we need to cultivate in our students if they are to thrive in the dynamic, interconnected world into which they will graduate.
To cultivate these intellectual and ethical…
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Bonomi, Rotman, and a Human Rights Approach to Sexual Misconduct in Higher Education
Bonomi, Rotman, and a Human Rights Approach to Sexual Misconduct in Higher Education
In her recent article in the Journal of Family Violence, Amy Bonomi, Chair of Human Development and Family Studies at Michigan State University, insists that sexual assault and relationship violence cannot be effectively redressed until we undertake serious and systematic anti-bias education and training.Bonomi, Amy. “Rethinking Campus Sexual Assault: We Must Be Leaders in Anti-Bias Practices,…
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The Liberal Arts Endeavor: A New General Education In the introduction to volume 65, issues 3-4 of the Journal for General Education, I draw on insights from Cathy Davidson's book, …
To the Class of 2022: MSU is an Open Door
To the Class of 2022: MSU is an Open Door
Welcome to the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University!
As you embark on your educational journey here at MSU, I invite you to consider the doors that are opening for you all across campus. Each door offers an opportunity, as daunting as it is exciting, to establish meaningful connections, discover new ideas, and develop relationships that will shape the course of your life.
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A Few Reflections on the TOME Initiative
A Few Reflections on the TOME Initiative
WASHINGTON, DC – Today a group of colleagues from the Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, and Association of University Presses met to advance the Towards an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) initiative. It was heartening to see the progress the initiative has made since our first gathering in the summer of 2016. At the time, I was enthusiastic about the effort…
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Toxicity, Metrics, and Academic Life
Toxicity, Metrics, and Academic Life
The second Radical Open Access conference was held on June 26-7, 2018 at Coventry University on the “Ethics of Care.” I participated from a distance via Skype, delivering a tweet storm style presentation based on a 3000 word essay entitled “Toxicity, Metrics, and Academic Life” that was published by Meson Press as a pamphlet posted to the CORE repository on Humanities Commons.
Here is the Twitter…
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ADFL Plenary Panel: International Digital Public Humanities
ADFL Plenary Panel: International Digital Public Humanities
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Creating and Sustaining Digital Scholarly Communities
The Academy for Teaching and Learning at Baylor University invited me to give two talks on the value of creating and nurturing online digital scholarly communities on April 19, 2018. The two presentations afforded me an opportunity to consider the role online scholarly communities might play in helping us address broader cultural challenges we are facing in higher education.
The Meaning and Value…
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Open Letter to College of Arts & Letters Alumni and Friends
Open Letter to College of Arts & Letters Alumni and Friends
Dear College of Arts & Letters alumni and friends,
By now many of you have heard that the university has agreed in principle to a $500 million global settlement with the survivors of the sexual abuse committed by former Michigan State University doctor Larry Nassar.
This important moment of accountability comes at the end of a difficult semester in which we have embarked upon a process of…
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Cultivating a Culture of Trust
Cultivating a Culture of Trust
It has been difficult to write for the public in the months since posting the Open Letter to the College of Arts & Lettersin the wake of the survivor impact statements that are transforming Michigan State University.[note]Thanks to Valerie Long, Kimberly Popiolek, Ryan Kilcoyne, Sonja Fritzsche, Bill Hart-Davidson, Ron Hedrick, and Prabu David for their wise and insightful feedback on versions of…
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Open Letter to the College of Arts & Letters
Dear College of Arts & Letters Students, Faculty, Staff, Alumni, and Friends,
In the wake of the survivor impact statements, the Nassar sentencing, and the resignation of President Simon, we have entered an important period of transition and change at Michigan State University. I am grateful for the collaborative efforts our community is making to listen to the survivors. Their stories are…
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Life's Blueprints: Designing the Structure of Our Professional Lives
Life’s Blueprints: Designing the Structure of Our Professional Lives
Last year at this time, we spoke of beginnings and routine, of resolve and the quotidian habits required to weave them into a meaningful life. We set our intention to focus on five priorities through which we in the College of Arts & Letters will chart a path to national and international leadership in Arts and Humanities education and scholarship: Critical Diversity in a Digital Age; the Languag…
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Practices of Weaving: Arts & Letters at MSU
Late last month, the faculty on the College Advisory Council (CAC) gave me a writing assignment. In preparation for our Fall 2017 faculty meeting on November 17, they asked me to take a step back from the updates on priorities, imperatives, and initiativesthat have occupied our more recent faculty meetings, to articulate a broader vision of the College of Arts & Letters in the 21st century…
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