Our efforts to respond to the current political threats to higher education are undermined by a disparity between professed values and lived-experience.

https://cplong.org/2026/01/love-complexity-and-interconnection-the-heart-of-university-life/

"How can we create the conditions for imagination and understanding to take root and grow across the university; for the quiet attention that allows what is said to be heard, for the critical discernment that enables us to come to terms with the complex realities we face, and for the ethical imagination that empowers us to respond to the world we encounter in ways that create meaning and connection and joy?"

https://cplong.org/2025/10/learning-to-be-at-home-in-the-world/

I have turned, in recent weeks, to Arendt's "Essays in Understanding," to gain some purchase on the unsettling dynamics of the current moment in the life of our embattled democracy. Her account of understanding here speaks to a way of knowing that has been eclipsed in a social and political culture that has long demonstrated an incapacity to engage complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty with nuance and grace.

https://cplong.org/2025/10/learning-to-be-at-home-in-the-world/

As we navigate the difficult challenges that face us in higher education — and across our civic life in these United States — I return to the practices of blogging that have long enriched my academic and personal life. #HigherEd @humetricshss

https://cplong.org/2025/04/finding-new-modes-of-communicating-as-provost/