Periods of disruption, however unsettling, often open us to new possibilities. The current effort to dismantle the federal support for research in the United States is as cynical as it is misguided; cynical because it uses research infrastructure as a…
Wholeheartedness in a Time of Fear and Uncertainty
On a Friday in early May, I joined a group of leaders at the University of Oregon whose work focuses on advising. They had gathered in Eugene, down along the Willamette River, to identify the shared values that would shape…
The Intentional Work of Values-Enacted Change
When Stephanie Shonekan, Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) at the University of Maryland (UMD), asked about the origins of the HuMetricsHSS initiative at lunch after our workshop this week, I was transported back in time to…
Enacting Values of Co-authorship
The publication of the “Walking the Talk” report required intentional practices of co-authoring to enact the values of the HuMetricsHSS team.
No Quality without Equity
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…
Recognizing Peer Review
In June of 2018, I held a short workshop about the HuMetricsHSS initiative with colleagues attending the 2018 Summer Seminar – East gathering of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages that was meeting at Michigan State University. Paula Winke,…
Nurturing Fulfilling Scholarly Lives
In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, there is a famous passage in which he reminds us that “to be happy takes a complete lifetime; for one swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day; and similarly one day or…
The Excellences of Scholarship: Collegiality
We began the day with a walk. The morning was cool and fresh, and the grounds around the DuBoise House at the Rizzo Center offered the six of us on the #HuMetrics team at the TriangleSCI the peace and space…
From Metrics to Values
Recognizing that metrics drive practices in the academy (and elsewhere), we on the HuMetrics: Building a Humane Metrics for the Humanities team at this year’s Triangle Scholarly Communications Institute decided to approach our work by thinking first about the values…