From the Harvard Crimson: Harvard faculty are weighing an amendment to a proposed cap on undergraduate A’s that would substantially reduce the number of A’s awarded in smaller courses, the latest revision to a policy faculty have debated for months. The current proposal would cap the number of A’s in any course at 20 percent of enrolled students plus four. The amendment, drafted by Physics professor Matthew D. Schwartz, would replace the flat addition of four with 0.6 times the square root of the total number of students.
Across all courses, the two formulas would produce roughly the same overall share of A’s — 31 percent under the amendment, compared with 32.3 percent under the current proposal. (The current share of As awarded to undergraduates is substantially higher at 63 percent.) But the amendment’s impact would be far more pronounced in smaller courses. In courses with 12 or fewer students, the maximum allowed share of A’s would fall from 70.8 percent to 51.1 percent. In larger classes, Schwartz’s formula would slightly increase the cap, raising the allowed share of A’s by one to three percentage points in courses with more than 30 students...
Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/4/27/grade-cap-amendment/.
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From the Harvard Crimson: Enrollment in Harvard’s Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies program has fallen to a more than 15-year low, as cuts to teaching positions and federal scrutiny of gender and sexuality-related programming raise questions about the program’s long-term sustainability. 22 undergraduates are currently concentrating in WGS, including joint and double concentrators, according to data from current and past concentration handbooks. The figure is the lowest since 2010 and represents a more than 50 percent decline from the program’s 2022-23 peak of 55 concentrators.
Only two are sophomores — the most recent class to declare their concentrations...
Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/4/22/wgs-concentrators-drop/.
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