The ways we distribute scholarship are centered on values. We may not think of publishing, paying invoices, writing, or any of these related activities as a part of our individual or collective values system; nonetheless, they are. Over the past…
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 Intentional Work of Values-Enacted Change
When Stephanie Shonekan, Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) at the University of Maryland (UMD), asked about the origins of the HuMetricsHSS initiative at lunch after our workshop this week, I was transported back in time to…
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…
Examining the Syllabus as Scholarly Object: What Can We Learn about Values from This Teaching Tool?
Workshop participants Melinda Weinstein and Leigh Graves Wolf work alongside HuMetricsHSS co-PIs Chris Long and Nicky Agate at this month’s workshop on syllabi Earlier this month, scholar–educators and the HuMetricsHSS team came together at Michigan State University to better understand…
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…
HuMetricsHSS: Can (Should) We Develop Humane Metrics for the Humanities?
This post was originally written by Adriel Trott, Associate Professor in Philosophy at Wabash College and participant in the HuMetricsHSS “The Value of Values” (#hssvalues) workshop. It reflects her experiences of the event. We’ve cross-posted this from Adriel’s blog, with her…
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.