Letter from the ARCJS Faculty Advisors

Abstract

What is the value of undergraduate knowledge production?

Academia has long been shaped by measurements of value that prioritize certain

forms of knowledge and modes of inquiry over others. Institutional recognition,

credentialism, peer-reviewed articles, impact factors, citation counts, and grant

awards are the currencies by which intellectual labor is often valued. These

conventions tend to exclude and underappreciate much-needed scholarship that

unsettles the epistemological foundations upon which societal structures are

built.