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…