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 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 will discuss the benefits, challenges, and opportunities that come with using these more human-centered metrics.
Join us to learn 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
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ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Jeremy Price is an associate professor of technology, innovation, and pedagogy at Indiana University Indianapolis. As a public scholar-collaborator, Dr. Price is invested in using his experiences and expertise to engage and build capacity and capital in educational settings for marginalized and minoritized youth and communities to build, strengthen, and sustain an inclusive and just democratic project. He works to prepare preservice and inservice educators to use technology for just, equitable, and inclusive purposes that honors learners, their identities, and their communities. In addition to his role as Associate Professor of Technology, Innovation, and Pedagogy, Dr. Price serves as the Primary Investigator and Project Director for the Collaborative for Equitable and Inclusive STEM Learning (CEISL), the Digital Education Hub, and for the Community Studies of Antisemitism In Schools (CSAIS) project.