Grade inflation happens when teachers knowingly give a student a mark higher than deserved. It can also happen indirectly, when the level of difficulty of a course is deliberately lowered so students ...

In 1894, Harvard University commissioned a report on grading standards, due to concerns that: Grades A and B are sometimes given too readily—Grade A for work of no very high merit, and Grade B for ...

On May 19, Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted 458 to 201 to cap flat A grades in undergraduate courses, limiting the total number of A grades to 20 percent of course enrollment, ...

Maya Duckworth-Pilkington spent the first two weeks of January buried in her textbooks, studying. Until she submitted her final advanced functions exam, the Rosedale Heights School of the Arts senior ...

Grade inflation changes the way GPAs are used. Professors and employers discuss what grade inflation really means. Illustration (Zoe Cook) Ben Gibbs, BYU Sociology Professor talks about what grade ...

Across science, technology, engineering and math majors, Black, Latino and Native American students initially enroll at similar levels to their white peers but do not complete STEM degrees at the same ...

Since pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses began waning, culture warriors have been casting about for a new controversy in elite higher education. Last October, Harvard handed them one. Amanda ...

Also published in The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Fri. November 28, 2025. Higher education is suffering from many woes, and the federal government (and sometimes Donald Trump in ...

Grade inflation got started ... in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.... The grades that faculty members now give ... deserve to be a scandal. -- Professor Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University, 2001 Grades ...