If you’re wondering if the HumetricsHSS workshop is for you, the answer is yes! – HuMetricsHSS

East Lansing, Michigan, October 5-7, 2017.

"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 workshop, we’ll interrogate, brainstorm, break apart, add to, and thoroughly revise a proposed set of values to create the beginnings of a framework for assessing a more holistic, accurate interpretation of scholarly 'excellence.'

The HuMetricsHSS initiative is based on the idea that humanists and social scientists should not content ourselves with existing, faulty evaluation metrics that are based on what’s easy to measure (citations, grant dollars awarded, Twitter mentions, etc.) rather than what’s important to measure (influence, quality, collaboration, etc). Instead, we believe that it’s important to think about what kind of values matter to those of us working in humanities and social science fields — our collective ethos, as it were — and to develop a flexible metrics framework that rewards work that embodies those values. See this post for an example of how this idea might apply to a typical scholarly object: the syllabus."