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Walking the Talk: Toward a Values-Aligned Academy
- Contributor(s):
- Nicky Agate (see profile) , Christopher P. Long (see profile) , Bonnie Russell (see profile) , Rebecca Kennison (see profile) , Penelope Weber (see profile) , Simone Sacchi (see profile) , Jason Rhody (see profile) , Bonnie Thornton Dill (see profile)
- Date:
- 2022
- Group(s):
- Digital Humanists, HuMetricsHSS, Library & Information Science, Public Humanities
- Subject(s):
- Education, Higher, Evaluation, Research--Evaluation
- Item Type:
- White paper
- Institution:
- HuMetricsHSS
- Tag(s):
- Evaluation, metrics, values, Academe, Altmetrics, Assessment, Humanities metrics, Research impact, Scholarly communication
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/06sf-ad45
- Abstract:
- Walking the Talk: Toward a Values-Aligned Academy is the culmination of 18 months of research interviews across the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA). Conducted by the HuMetricsHSS Initiative as an extension of their previous work on values-enacted scholarly practice, the interviews focused on current systems of evaluation within BTAA institutions, the potential problems and inequalities of those processes, the kinds of scholarly work that could be better recognized and rewarded, and the contexts and pressures evaluators are under, including, as the process progressed, the onset and ongoing conditions of COVID-19. The interviews focused primarily on the reappointment, promotion, and tenure (RPT) process. Interviewees outlined a number of issues to be addressed, including toxicity in evaluation, scholars’ increased alienation from the work they are passionate about, and a high-level virtue-signaling of values by institutions without the infrastructure or resources to support the enactment of those values. Based on these conversations, this white paper offers a set of recommendations for making wide-scale change to address systematic injustice, erasure, and devaluation of academic labor in order to strengthen the positive public impact of scholarship.
- Notes:
- A digital version of this paper can be found on Manifold: https://pubhub.lib.msu.edu/projects/walking-the-talk.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 1 year ago
- License:
- Attribution
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