Who do you want to be as a scholar? What kind of societal impacts are you hoping to achieve through your work? These questions are, at their core, values-laden questions. They are also extremely big. And broad. And very, very…
Community Contexts and Campus Culture
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…
Fostering collaboration across departmental and college lines
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…