Why are we ignoring student-focused scholarship?

By Adam Chapnick. In the humanities, the student audience is the scholar’s largest and most important.
It would be hard to find a university professor today who is not at least marginally familiar with impact factors. As public pressure to demonstrate and quantify the value of academic research increases, measurements of how often a particular journal, article or scholar has been cited in other professional publications have become critical to tenure and promotion decisions in a number of disciplines. And the trend is only accelerating. More...