In 鈥淧ublic Influence Rankings鈥� released today, two members of the CU 麻豆影院 School of Education faculty were recognized as among the nation鈥檚 top 200 researchers whose scholarship bridges academic and public audiences. Professor聽Kevin Welner ranked No. 47, and Professor Bill Penuel ranked No. 101.
罢丑别听聽are the creation of Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute and is published on Hess鈥� blog in聽Education Week. He began this project 11 years ago to recognize 鈥渟cholars who work to move ideas from the pages of barely read journals and to practice and policy. One small way to encourage academics to step into the fray and revisit academic norms is by doing more to recognize and value those scholars who do step out.鈥�
Each scholar on the list was scored by Hess and his colleagues across聽, including聽Google Scholar, book points, Amazon rankings, syllabus points, education press mentions, web mentions, newspaper mentions, congressional record mentions, and Twitter score.
鈥淥ur faculty, researchers and doctoral students in the CU 麻豆影院 School of Education are united by a deep-seated commitment to public scholarship,鈥� said Dean Kathy Schultz. "We understand the importance of grounding our research in practice to generate policy-relevant solutions and working with community partners and educators as close collaborators in our work. Together with our partners, we are focused on transforming the educational opportunities in historically marginalized communities and learning from and with our colleagues."
Together with our partners, we are focused on transforming the educational opportunities in historically marginalized communities and learning from and with our colleagues."
Schultz welcomed the聽Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings as an example of thinking holistically about measures of scholarly impact along with broader impact on public discussions. At the same time, Schultz urged the scholarly community to follow Hess鈥� lead and work together to create other so-called 鈥渁lt-metric鈥� approaches to account for public scholarship, that use weights, criteria, and approaches that more closely reflect a community-based set of values and priorities.聽
鈥淲hile I imagine many of us don鈥檛 believe that these particular criteria or rankings are the only or even best way to recognize聽public scholarship efforts and influence, I am happy to see our School of Education featured on the list,鈥� Schultz added.
Welner, professor and chair of the Educational Foundations Policy and Practice program and director of the National Education Policy Center housed at CU 麻豆影院, was part an ideologically diverse committee that worked with Hess to nominate scholars to be considered for ranking.