Graham Beal Graham Beal, former director, president and CEO of the Detroit Institute of Arts, has been appointed Visiting Hannah Distinguished Professor for this academic year, the most prestigious faculty appointment at the university. With an appointment in the Department of Art, Art History and Design in the College of Arts and Letters, Beal will also serve as senior adviser to the provost. Beal…
William and Audrey Farber and their family EAST LANSING, Mich. --- Michigan State University’s newly created William and Audrey Farber Family Chair in Holocaust Studies and European Jewish History, funded by a $1.5 million private gift, will be one of just a handful of Holocaust Studies chairs in the country, one of four in the Big Ten and the first…
Dear College of Arts & Letters students, As the new Dean of the College of Arts & Letters it is my pleasure to welcome you to Michigan State University. Many of you have already experienced the network of pathways that figure prominently throughout the MSU campus.
VIRTUAL VISIT DAYS In an effort to ensure that you are provided with the information you need to make the right decisions concerning your educational career, we are offering virtual visit days over the next few weeks. Our recruiter, LaDonna Croffe, will give a 30 minute presentation followed by a question and answer period. You will also hear from current…
The places we inhabit habituate us. The virtues they cultivate are grounded in the values they embody. In 1855, a natural opening in the oak forest of the Burr farm was selected as a fitting site for the creation of the Michigan Agricultural College (M.A.C.)
As I begin my tenure as Dean of the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University I find myself thinking of these lines adapted from Deuteronomy 6:10-12 by Peter Raible: “We build on foundations we did not lay. We warm ourselves at fires we did not light. We sit in the shade of trees we did not plant. We drink from wells we did not dig. We profit from persons we did not know.”
The MSU Board of Trustees approved the appointment of Dr. Christopher P. Long as the next dean of Michigan State University’s College of Arts & Letters effective July 1, 2015. Dr. Elizabeth H. Simmons, who has served as acting dean since August 1, 2014, will continue in that role until Long starts in July 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyOk4LjjOgA&feature=emb_title “Since its founding in…
Christopher P. Long has been recommended to serve as the new dean of Michigan State University’s College of Arts and Letters. If approved by the MSU Board of Trustees, his appointment would be effective July 1. Long is associate dean for graduate and undergraduate education and professor of philosophy and classics in the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State…