In preparation for the Fall Faculty meeting in the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University last week, the faculty on the College Advisory Committee asked me to write a blog post that articulated a vision of the College within the context of the 21st century land-grant mission. I turned to the metaphor of weaving as I tried to emphasize the central importance of the liberal arts here at MSU and, I hope, more broadly in higher education: http://cplong.org/2017/11/practices-of-weaving-arts-letters-at-msu/