WU Stream: Last Lecture with Provost Carol Long

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 

6:00–7 p.m. (US/Pacific)

Carol S. Long is Willamette's Provost and Senior Vice President. She helps to enhance collaboration among the schools of Willamette University and between student and academic affairs.

Long first joined Willamette University as a Professor of English in 1972. In roughly 45 years of service to the institution, she has served as department chair, associate dean, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, and finally as Provost and Senior Vice President.

She will retire at the end of the school year, bringing to a close one of the most storied of Willamette careers.

For those who had the good fortune of taking a class with Carol, and perhaps even more so for those who did not, we're hosting her for one last lecture on Invisible Cities per Italo Calvino. The piece is a work of fiction imagining a conversation between an aged Kublai Khan and a young Marco Polo. Whether you've read it or not, you won't want to miss Carol's dive into this fascinating text.