Chris LongLast week we in the Provost’s Office at the University of Oregon paused to discuss and identify the values that will shape our work together.
https://cplong.org/2024/08/a-pivotal-week-in-the-life-of-the-provosts-office/
@matthiasott Here is the feed for The Long Road, blogging an academic life: https://cplong.org/feed #HigherEd #Leadership #Philosophy #ValuesEnacted
A few weeks ago, we had to charge a committee to think through budget issues connected with summer course scheduling. We took a @humetricshss #ValuesEnacted approach to the initial gathering of the committee in which we identified values and then talked explicitly about how we will put those values into practice with one another and in the work we are doing. https://cplong.org/2023/03/finding-the-values-in-committee-work/
To reweave ourselves into community, reconnect ourselves with our purpose, and realign university values with institutional practice, we need to create structures and cultivate habits that reinforce the work that gives our personal and institutional lives meaning.
https://cplong.org/2023/02/wholeness-in-a-torn-world/
#HigherEd #Spirituality #Wholeness #ValuesEnacted @humetricshss
After a week in the DC area with colleagues committed to making meaningful culture change in #HigherEd, I sat down yesterday to reflect upon my experience and the growing movement across higher education toward intentional, #ValuesEnacted transformative change. @humetricshss #HuMetricsHSS
https://cplong.org/2023/01/the-intentional-work-of-values-enacted-change/
https://cplong.org/2023/01/the-intentional-work-of-values-enacted-change/
@stancarey As we on the @humetricshss team continue to think about #ValuesEnacted scholarship, the #AltText example is one to which I regularly return. Like thorough research, attention to detail, vetting sources, and reading widely, adding #AltText to images elevates the quality of your communication because it enacts a commitment to inclusion and equity. Our approach at #HuMetricsHSS is to ground quality in the intentional enactment of articulated values. Communication of images without #AltText is substandard communication if you share the values of #equity, #openness, #inclusion, #accessibility, and #integrity. It takes more time in the way proofreading and editing and research take more time.
Earlier this week, I participated in a leadership workshop in which we talked about the importance of empathy. This led me back to a concept to which the @humetricshss team and I return regularly - ethical imagination.
#EthicalImagination moves beyond empathy, which means to suffer along with another, to feel one's way into the position of another. Empathy is a condition for the possibility of ethical imagination. But ethics concerns character; it is a question of disposition. Imagination moves beyond present reality toward what is possible. It is a turn toward justice - it animates just actions.
Ethical Imagination is the capacity to imagine one’s way into the position of another in order to discern and enact together the just conditions for mutual flourishing.
#HuMetricsHSS #ValuesEnacted #Leadership #HigherEd #Empathy #Imagination #Ethics
This week marked an important milestone for the #HuMetricsHSS team: we were able to bring an amazing group of #HigherEd leaders at the University of Washington through the full story arc of the transformative work we hope to empower.
It begins with a reflective conversation about values that builds toward a values framework designed to inform every aspect of the work. We then deconstructed products of scholarship into their constitutive processes so we could identify ways to infuse our values into the micro-transactions that shape our work.
Then we invited colleagues to identify a meaningful change they want to make. We asked them to reflect on their positionality, the power they have to effect the change, and who they would need to enter into coalition with to be successful. We ended the workshop with four concrete areas of focus, a map of relationships that influence each area, and a set of values that will shape the way the coalition works together.
The #HuMetricsHSS team is at the University of Washington this week doing a series of workshops on #ValuesEnacted scholarship and institutional transformation.
Our work here in Seattle is based in part on our article entitled “The transformative power of values-enacted scholarship”
The transformative power of values-enacted scholarship - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
The current mechanisms by which scholars and their work are evaluated across higher education are unsustainable and, we argue, increasingly corrosive. Relying on a limited set of proxy measures, current systems of evaluation fail to recognize and reward the many dependencies upon which a healthy scholarly ecosystem relies. Drawing on the work of the HuMetricsHSS Initiative, this essay argues that by aligning values with practices, recognizing the vital processes that enrich the work produced, and grounding our indicators of quality in the degree to which we in the academy live up to the values for which we advocate, a values-enacted approach to research production and evaluation has the capacity to reshape the culture of higher education.
Tom Scheinfeldt@cplong I love this sentiment. But practicing #ValuesEnacted scholarship takes more time and patience, which is at odds with the pervasive culture of *more* that has taken over #HigherEd. Dismantling that culture will be very difficult, but a key component in the realignment you mention.