From the Harvard Crimson: Dean of Undergraduate Education Amanda Claybaugh urged faculty... to begin following the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ new cap on A grades this fall, a year before the policy is set to take effect... Claybaugh wrote that faculty would need to overhaul their grading procedures to reduce grade compression that could lead to “arbitrary” distinctions between students once the cap becomes mandatory — a concern she wrote students had frequently raised leading up to the policy’s passage.
...Faculty voted in May to cap all A grades in undergraduate courses at 20 percent of enrollment, with flexibility for up to four additional A grades. Though the cap will not officially go into effect until the 2027-28 academic year, College administrators have consistently urged faculty to begin abiding by it this coming year. At a March open forum, Harvard College Dean David J. Deming said administrators would encourage faculty to abide by the cap during the 2026-27 academic year... Several large introductory courses have already agreed to stay within the grade cap this upcoming year...
Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/6/30/claybaugh-grade-cap-guidance/.
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