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…
Values and Website Inclusivity
I’m the digital specialist for HuMetricsHSS and I wanted to talk a bit about how both our values as a team and my values work together to inform our work. I was delighted to attend the 2023 axe-con conference last…
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…
Equity as a Core Value
We’ve just completed Day 2 at #TriangleSCI, and more hard (but good) work is now behind the #HuMetrics team. Today we took our huge brainstorming list from yesterday and distilled the values we believe should underpin the development of “humane…