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.…
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…
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…