We’re delighted to announce the 2022 HuMetricsHSS Community Fellows. HuMetricsHSS Community Fellows are individuals who are engaged in transforming academic culture at their own institutions, whether by rethinking what forms of scholarship “count,” considering how indicators and metrics might be…
Announcing the HuMetricsHSS Community Fellowship
We are pleased to announce the 2021 HuMetricsHSS Community Fellowship. The HuMetricsHSS Community Fellows are individuals who are engaged in transformative work in their own institutions, rethinking how scholarship “counts,” how indicators and metrics can be informed by values, and…
HuMetricsHSS Initiative Receives $650,000 Mellon Grant
We’re pleased to announce that the HuMetricsHSS Initiative has received a $650,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon foundation to continue our work! We’re very grateful for the support, and excited to unveil new projects and opportunities in the next…
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…
It’s in the Syllabus (Journal)
We’re thrilled that our flash essay, “The Syllabus as Locus of Intervention and Impact” has been published in a special issue of Syllabus, guest edited by Rebecca Frost Davis, Matthew K Gold, and Katherine D Harris.
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…
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,…