A new Slop University marketing campaign profiles Lecturer Marek Solheim's MERIT accreditation system, now the gate a suburban sports club clears before adding a name to its honour board.
Marek Solheim's MERIT accreditation replaces a show of hands with a formal appeals period before any name goes up
For most of its history, a suburban sports club settled who belonged on its honour board the way most clubs do: a show of hands at the end of presentation night, decided before the sausage rolls ran out. The club now runs that decision through MERIT, a points-based accreditation system fielded by the School of Emergent Priorities, and Lecturer Marek Solheim has carried the case study onto the University’s own campus signage.
MERIT scores each nomination against a published set of eligibility criteria and opens a formal appeals window before any name is confirmed, in place of a vote the committee once closed out in an evening. Solheim’s case study, written in the School’s teaching-case register, treats the system’s early operation as the institution’s own record of what a properly resourced eligibility process is now understood to require, appeals window included.
A show of hands never needed an appeals window, and that was always the problem with it.
— Lecturer Marek Solheim, Deputy Convenor, Horizon Register
The case study is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.bm4sv3.