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,…
Recapping the Third HuMetricsHSS Workshop: Valuing and Evaluating Annotation
In November 2018, the HuMetricsHSS team gathered for our third workshop on values and research impact metrics. This workshop examined the role of annotations as a scholarly indicator. The purpose of the first day of deliberations was to understand what…
Examining the Syllabus as Scholarly Object: What Can We Learn about Values from This Teaching Tool?
Workshop participants Melinda Weinstein and Leigh Graves Wolf work alongside HuMetricsHSS co-PIs Chris Long and Nicky Agate at this month’s workshop on syllabi Earlier this month, scholar–educators and the HuMetricsHSS team came together at Michigan State University to better understand…
Valuing the Syllabus as Scholarship: A Workshop
Yesterday, literary and digital studies scholar Mark Sample tweeted out “So, @safiyanoble’s Algorithms of Oppression came out yesterday, I got my copy today, and it’s on my syllabus for Monday.” This tweet offers a great example of the cultural relevance…
On “The Value of Values” Workshop, Part 1
During the 2016 TriangleSCI, the HuMetricsHSS team spent a lot of time making lists. Lists of scholarly objects, large and small. Articles, books, syllabi, annotations, editions, committee minutes, e-mails, and blog posts. We even grappled with how to represent the…