2024 Annual Summit: CUMU-Collaboratory Research Fellowship Presentation

Part of Collaboratory’s 2024 Annual Summit, this presentation shared findings from the 2024 CUMU-Collaboratory Research Fellowship. 

Without a doubt, an intense focus on numbers and metrics is the current zeitgeist of higher education. When community-engaged researchers and their supporters meet, the question “What are our metrics?” often arises. While metrics are typically used to support market-driven goals and can oversimplify complex research-such as community engaged scholarship-they can also be valuable when used grounded in a humanizing and relational stance.

Dr. Jeremy Price, supported by the CUMU-Collaboratory Research Fellowship, has been developing a set of metrics that better capture the true essence of community-engaged research. These new metrics consider the full context, relationships, and efforts involved in this type of work. Drawing inspiration from Neil Postman’s constructive approach to change, Dr. Price discussed the benefits, challenges, and opportunities that come with using these more human-centered metrics.

This webinar shared how these new metrics can help provide a platform for project evaluation and communicate the important nuances of community-engaged research to a wide range of audiences, including funders, administrators, colleagues, and communities.

Presenter:

• Dr. Jeremy Price, Associate Professor of Technology, Innovation, and Pedagogy at Indiana University Indianapolis

Recorded September 19, 2024