Carol Long wins bid for provost
Kevin Muller
Issue date: 4/30/09 Section: News
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Long said she became interested in Geneseo because she is "very attracted to the public liberal arts mission" and that she hopes to support and expand that mission when she arrives this summer. A former river guide, she also said she enjoys the rural setting and surrounding environment of the campus.
Referring to her visit to Geneseo, Long said she was "very impressed with the quality of the student body," which she described as "curious; interested in thinking and writing and asking questions."
In addition to her liberal arts credentials, Long will bring with her interests in international education, diversity and interdisciplinary studies such as the interface between science and literature. "I hope that students will consider me to have an open door policy," she said, adding, "We need to remember that the students are the center of our colleges ... without them, [the faculty] would not be here."
Long received her bachelor's degree from Pomona College in California and her master's degree from Northwestern University in Illinois. She continued at Northwestern to earn her doctorate in English literature in 1972. At that time she began teaching at Willamette and became a full professor of English in 1985.
At Willamette, Long served as a liaison to that college's sister institution, Tokyo International University, helped revise the general education program in the mid-1990s, improved the first-year seminar program, played an instrumental role in securing Hewlett and Mellon Foundation Grants and founded the Oregon Writing Project, a partnership between Willamette and surrounding K-12 schools and state colleges.
Her variety of teaching areas include modernist literature of Britain and America, science and literature, rhetoric of science, women in science, the novel, northwest literature, composition, creative nonfiction and specific studies on authors Samuel Beckett and Virginia Woolf.
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