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…
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…