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.…
Developing Unit Mentoring Programs for Non-Tenure Stream Faculty by Building on the Charting Pathways to Intellectual Leadership Initiative
Over the past five years, the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University has implemented its value-enacted Charting Pathways to Intellectual Leadership (CPIL) initiative via a multi-phase approach. (For more on the CPIL initiative and its goals, see…
Advancing Diverse Research Impact Measures at American University: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned
This fellowship has been a special and rewarding experience— meeting to meet and talk with scholars who are all working on projects to make academia better, more equitable, more diverse, more fulfilling … just wow! For me, the lessons have…
Metrics to What End?
Big ships turn slowly, but they go faster with more tugboats. When we applied for the HuMetricsHSS grant, our goal was to devise a set of parameters that our research-intensive (R1) university’s administration could use to accurately identify faculty in…