From the Yale Daily News: Conversations around grade inflation in the Ivy League turned into action... when Harvard announced that 70 percent of its faculty voted in favor of a policy to cap A grades at 20 percent for each course, allowing for up to four additional A’s per class, beginning in fall 2027. [The] vote marked a major shift by Harvard to confront grade inflation that coincides with similar efforts at Yale, which are in earlier stages. Yale professors, while decrying that grade inflation contributes to student stress, perfectionism and difficulty distinguishing academic performance, have described the issue as a collective action problem, in which stricter grading by individual faculty — and universities — comparatively disadvantages their own students.
...In interviews with the News, Yale professors expressed support for Harvard’s new grade cap as a meaningful step by a leading university to combat grade inflation. Many still pointed out what they described as imperfections in the system, including a lack of nuance between seminars and lectures, the possibility of a proliferation of A-minuses and a focus away from intellectual growth.
...According to a 2023 report..., 79 percent of grades in Yale College in the 2022–23 school year were A’s or A-minuses.
Full story at https://yaledailynews.com/articles/after-harvard-passes-grade-cap-yale-faculty-say-bravo-for-first-step.
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