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Long View Blog: No Quality Without Equity

November 11, 2019

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, Maryland. My time with the 60 or so participants in the workshop, which included researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, members of learned societies, and a wide range of colleagues…

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Mellon Grant Supports Values-Based Metrics Initiative to Transform Higher Education

August 15, 2019

Michigan State University has received a $695,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund the Humane Metrics for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HuMetricsHSS) initiative, an international partnership that supports the development and implementation of new methods for assessing the nature and quality of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences over the next 18 months.  The HuMetricsHSS initiative aims…

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Faculty / News / Podcast

Podcast: Design and the Parameters of Possibility

August 10, 2019

The latest episode of the Liberal Arts Endeavor Podcast, titled Design and the Parameters of Possibility, is out. Our host, Dean Christopher P. Long, spoke with Zachary Kaiser, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Experience Architecture, about how design has the potential to shape the world that we live, work, teach, and even eat in. Kaiser’s research interests include exploring how faculty…

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Less Commonly Taught and Indigenous Languages the Focus of $2.5 Million Grant

July 22, 2019

Currently, MSU offers instruction in 29 less commonly taught languages, such as Vietnamese, Turkish, and Indonesian. Often the challenge in teaching these languages is having only one or two students at any given university taking a course, and in order to have a full class and higher levels of competency, a critical mass of students is needed across multiple semesters.

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New Arts and Cultural Management and Museum Studies Director Selected

June 17, 2019

Kiersten F. “KF” Latham has been selected as the new Director of the Arts and Cultural Management and Museum Studies program for a term of five years, beginning on August 1, 2019. She also will serve as Associate Professor of Arts and Cultural Management.  Latham comes to MSU from Kent State University where she was an Associate Professor in the School of…

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ATD Major One of the First to Graduate from Citizen Scholars Program

April 26, 2019

Allison Steffen will be one of the first three students to graduate from the College of Arts & Letters’ Citizen Scholars program, which launched in the fall 2016 to help prepare the next generation of diverse, high achieving, and engaged citizen leaders. “As one of the first students to have completed the program, I think the members of my class were…

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Podcast: Why Language Changes Over Time

April 25, 2019

Episode seven of season three of the Liberal Arts Endeavor podcast is out! In this episode, Dean Christopher P. Long discusses why language changes over time with Suzanne Wagner, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Linguistics program in the Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages. She is also Core Faculty member at the Center for Gender in…

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