DAILYCALLER (Faith Miller) - Taxpayer-Funded School To Hide Grades In Name Of Mental Health
not include a letter grade indicator
JUSTTHENEWS (Lane Smith) - Harvard caps number of A’s professors give to undergrads, amid controversy over 'grade inflation'
Almost all universities face grade inflation; Harvard faculty decide to push back.
JUSTTHENEWS (Kevin Killough) - Harvard College faculty votes in favor of capping percentage of A's to address grade inflation
A report found that A grades accounted for 40% of all grades in 2015, up from 24% in 2005.
DAILYCALLER (Lucy Spence) - Harvard Faculty Approve Grade Cap As University Faces Soaring Grade Inflation
An “important step”
NYTIMES (Mark Arsenault) - Harvard Caps A’s as Selective Colleges Attack Grade Inflation
Faculty members overwhelmingly approved a limit on the number of top grades they can give to about a fifth of their undergraduate classes.
AXIOS (Josephine Walker) - AI sends A grades into overdrive
Some college classes are seeing a boom in students earning A's — many with the help of AI . Why it matters: Universities and colleges were already concerned about how many students are earning A's and B's, but now must worry that graduates are leaving AI-proficient rather than knowledgeable about their subjects of study. The big picture: It isn't a case where A- students get a slight bump to an A or A+, says Igor Chirikov, a UC Berkeley professor who authored a study on AI and grade inflation. - "We have a C student who is now an A student," Chirikov tells Axios, citing data from grades given between 2018 and 2025 at a Texas research university. What they found: Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, "excellent" grades rose by 30% in…
Some college classes are seeing a boom in students earning A's — many with the help of AI . Why it matters: Universities and colleges were already concerned about how many students are earning A's and B's, but now must worry that graduates are leaving AI-proficient rather than knowledgeable about their subjects of study. The big picture: It isn't a case where A- students get a slight bump to an A or A+, says Igor Chirikov, a UC Berkeley professor who authored a study on AI and grade inflation. - "We have a C student who is now an A student," Chirikov tells Axios, citing data from grades given between 2018 and 2025 at a Texas research university. What they found: Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, "excellent" grades rose by 30% in…Open
AMERICANGREATNESS (Daniel Oliver) - Can Harvard Be Reformed?
Making the rounds of Harvard graduates is an email from an alumnus of Harvard (the oldest college in America) asking pertinent and penetrating questions, some […] Source
NYTIMES (Mark Arsenault) - Harvard Proposes Capping As at 20 Percent to Curb Grade Inflation
A recent report found that a majority of grades given out at Harvard were A’s. Professors will vote on a proposal to limit the number to around 20 percent.
NYTIMES (Mark Arsenault) - A Solution for Too Many A’s? Harvard Considers Giving A-Pluses
Harvard University has been trying to cut back how many A grades professors give. Now, 53 percent of grades are A’s, down from 60 percent.