The publication of the “Walking the Talk” report required intentional practices of co-authoring to enact the values of the HuMetricsHSS team.
Announcing the HuMetricsHSS Community Fellowship
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…
On “The Value of Values” Workshop, Part 1
During the 2016 TriangleSCI, the HuMetricsHSS team spent a lot of time making lists. Lists of scholarly objects, large and small. Articles, books, syllabi, annotations, editions, committee minutes, e-mails, and blog posts. We even grappled with how to represent the…
On Living Our Values While Under Stress (and Preparing for Workshop One)
The real work of the HuMetricsHSS initiative begins in Michigan this week, when an insightful group of thinkers—faculty members of all ranks, teaching in any number of HSS disciplines at all kinds of institutions, along with administrators, graduate students, university publishers, and librarians—has agreed to come together to rip apart, interrogate, and rebuild that values framework, to come to a consensus on the values we share as a larger group.
If You’re Wondering If the HumetricsHSS Workshop Is for You, the Answer Is Yes!
This October, the HuMetricsHSS team is excited to bring together a diverse group of scholars, teachers, administrators, and students from a wide range of institutions for a topic that we believe will transform academia. Over the course of a two-day…
Triangle and Beyond
Our very early, very alpha, proposed first draft of a set of guiding values for evaluation in HSS work. When we first introduced the work of the HuMetrics group to the other TriangleSCI teams last October, we met with some…
The Syllabus as Scholarship
“A critical component of our emerging #Humetrics conversation at Triangle SCI involves finding ways to expose, highlight, and recognize the important scholarship that goes into the all-too-hidden work of peer review, syllabus development, conference organizing, mentoring, etc. Our current metrics…
Nurturing Fulfilling Scholarly Lives
In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, there is a famous passage in which he reminds us that “to be happy takes a complete lifetime; for one swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day; and similarly one day or…
The Excellences of Scholarship: Collegiality
We began the day with a walk. The morning was cool and fresh, and the grounds around the DuBoise House at the Rizzo Center offered the six of us on the #HuMetrics team at the TriangleSCI the peace and space…
On Quality
Today is the second full day of the Triangle Scholarly Communication Institute, where I am part of a team that’s focusing on HuMetrics: Building Humane Metrics for the Humanities. We have each agreed to quickly blog some thoughts as part…