The irony is, of course, that tenure is supposed to be a system of promoting radical ideas — the sorts of things that might make people mad. But there's every indication that it just creates a power structure that preserves and maintains the status quo.
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Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes to all of this. In graduate school work that is significantly public engagement and not “standard” academic outlets is hugely devalued IME relative to more traditional products.
It is explicitly devalued on things like faculty activity reports and re-appointment/tenure forms. You either have to put it under categories it probably doesn't belong, or in some ugly OTHER STUFF category at the end.
