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…
My HuMetricsHSS Journey
My HuMetricsHSS journey began over ten years ago, at least, when I became quite interested, concerned, worried, slightly panicked, and finally deeply troubled about how we measure and understand the quality and impact of our research. I was on leave…
Community Contexts and Campus Culture
Creating Agents of Change in the HuMetricsHSS Fellows Program Over the past decade, many colleges and universities have developed publicly stated diversity, equity, and inclusion goals. However, while senior administrators may point with pride to mission statements and strategic plans…
Sustaining Public Engagement and Building Classroom Capacity through The Mesoamerican Clay-Figurine Project
The Mesoamerican Clay-Figurine Project arouse out of a need to contest trauma and violence in the classroom though self-reflective writing, storytelling, and clay-work. The work has grown into a collective effort between Indigenous educators, scholars, families, and community practitioners from…
A Hopeful Place
I applied for a HuMetricsHSS Community Fellowship because I had been dissatisfied with the way my university recognized and rewarded specific sorts of academic work that are essential to our institutional identity but either blur the boundaries between traditional categories…
Fostering collaboration across departmental and college lines
Lindsay Yotsukura, University of Maryland, College Park The HuMetricsHSS Fellowship has enabled me to act as a catalyst behind the scenes to foster the development of many short- and long-term collaborations within and beyond the School of Languages, Literatures, and…
The TrustWorkers Project: Challenges and Methods of Building Trust into Public Scholarship
Dear Readers, In this blog post, I present a journal article that delves into the significance of trust in values-based public scholarship, drawing on my experience as a HuMetrics HSS fellow. A version of this piece has also been published…
The Values of Scholarly Communication
The ways we distribute scholarship are centered on values. We may not think of publishing, paying invoices, writing, or any of these related activities as a part of our individual or collective values system; nonetheless, they are. Over the past…
Building for the Future at a Defunded Public University
Or: Is There Such a Thing as a Values-Based Consolidation?? We were seated at a conference table in a room with no windows. The room was in a mall that the University had purchased in the late aughts, after the…
“…The Cake Looks Nothing Like Its Original Ingredients”: Cooking Up My HuMetricsHSS Project
As a writing teacher, I often use Natalie Goldberg’s analogy of baking a cake to describe the process of writing. Goldberg’s version goes like this: When you bake a cake, you have ingredients: sugar, flour, butter, baking soda, eggs, milk.…