Join us for a lecutre and discussion from Josh Eyler (University of Mississippi, Senior Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning and Assistant Professor of Teacher Education).

Traditional methods of grading have never been able to adequately account for the learning that happens in the Arts and Humanities, where growth and development are measured not by tests and numbers, but by creative choices, productive failures, new ideas, and unfolding understanding. While this has always been true, the rise of generative, assistive, and agentic AI demands that we now ask more pointed questions about the viability of grades for measuring student learning. In this talk, Eyler will discuss research that explores the limitations of traditional grades, the problems with "grade inflation" narratives, and a future that centers different models of grading that more comfortably align with the goals of Arts and Humanities disciplines.

Free and open to the public