The HuMetricsHSS team is excited to announce the teams attending the inaugural 2025 Values-Enacted Leadership Institute (VELI)! These teams represent exciting, transformational projects across a range of themes and institutions. Louisiana State University Building a Framework for Change: Leveraging a…
Join us for Envisioning the Future Academy: A HuMetricsHSS Community Convocation
We would like to invite the members of our community to apply to be a panelist at Envisioning the Future Academy: A HuMetricsHSS Community Convocation. This is a virtual event, to be held in two sessions on May 9th and…
Upcoming: HuMetricsHSS Community Fellows blog posts!
The HuMetricsHSS Community Fellowship is coming to a close. Over the last year and a half, nineteen individuals have been engaged in values-enacted work across seventeen institutions, convening every two months to share knowledge and think deeply together on questions…
Flipping the Bird
Like so many, we at HuMetricsHSS have been watching the implosion of Twitter with increasing concern. Since Elon Musk bought Twitter on October 28, 2022, the platform has been on a steep slide into what Safiya Noble recently called “this…
Building community around institutional change
On June 1, 2022, the HuMetricsHSS Initiative partnered with the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) to bring together the HuMetricsHSS Community Fellows and the DORA Community Engagement Grant Awardees to share knowledge and strategies on their respective—but interconnected—areas of work.…
What We’ve Been Up To
The world has changed dramatically since the HuMetricsHSS initiative began its work. In particular, the systemic inequities that were already obvious to many have come to the fore in the last year with the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives…
Website relaunch
We’ve redesigned our website! There’s a ton of new content, including more information on our research on current evaluation practices in the Big 10 system; updates to our own thinking on our values framework and the problem of “quality” as…
Iowa Workshop (and Article!)
On Friday, February 21, 2020, several members of the HuMetricsHSS team (Chris Long, Nicky Agate, Jason Rhody, and Penny Weber) were pleased to join a group of more than 25 scholars at the University of Iowa for a workshop. Our workshops…
Workshop: Values-Based Evaluation at Duke University
As part of our second phase of work on the HuMetricsHSS initiative, and with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the HuMetricsHSS team has been building out a more robust full-day workshop intended to help institutions work through…