Dr. Eric Weiner Writes Article for 3 Quarks Daily

Dr. Eric Weiner, Associate Professor in Educational Foundations, recently was chosen to write monthly essays for the prestigious web site 3 Quarks Daily. The online magazine posts essays about art, science, literature, politics, and philosophy from some of the top writers, thinkers, and scholars around the world.

For the university to fairly serve the interests of an increasingly diverse constituency of stakeholders, it must adjust and broaden the way it views, supports, and rewards the “unconventional” intellectual craftwork that is being done in the service of the public interest by faculty and students. It must recognize that there are many legitimate and critical “ways of knowing” that do not fit into the peer review, data driven, positivistic model of scholarship and faculty reward that continues to be used in research institutions across the country. To move the research university into the 21st century–to make it relevant outside of the interests of business–we must work more diligently to unshackle it from antiquated and instrumentalized measures of impact and value.