A fast and fun post for today: if you teach a discipline in which students need the occasional reminder that correlation ≠ causation, you might enjoy showing them some of these graphs...

It's the time of year again: the quads are freshly mowed, the students still have clean laundry, and we're all back in the classroom giddy with the prospect of the new semester ahead. The dawning of the new academic year means different things to different people, but these days an awful lot of instructors find themselves anguishing over the same thing: namely, what kind of position to take on their students' use of laptops in the classroom.

For a number of years now, the humanists whom I know best have been torn. On the one hand, they have developed a keen sense of the baleful...

One of the highlights of a busy day yesterday at the Bok Center was an impromptu discussion with a few colleagues and student fellows about what I suppose one might call the ecology of making these days in the arts and humanities. As one colleague put it, it is hard to witness the phenomenal success of a historically-themed show like Hamilton without wondering (...

If you have taught as a faculty member or graduate student, you have almost certainly gone through some version of the end-of-semester ritual known as teaching evaluations. You've probably also seen at least a few of the recent news articles and opinion pieces suggesting that these same evaluations (which typically ask students to rate their courses and instructors on a 1-5 scale of effectiveness) are...