From the Yale Daily News: A Yale committee is set to release recommendations on grade inflation in November but could face an unclear implementation timeline, according to administrators. The announcement arrives as grade inflation remains a top issue for universities across the nation, some of which have taken action... It is “hard to say” when new grading guidance would go into effect, Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis told the News after a closed-door faculty meeting about grade inflation in Luce Hall...
The standing Committee on Teaching, Learning and Advising anticipates to release specific recommendations for grade reform in November, Paul McKinley, a Yale College senior associate dean, wrote in [an] email to the News. That committee is chaired by economics professor and former University provost Benjamin Polak and includes Yale College Council President Alex William Chen ’28 and YCC Vice President Michelle Jimenez ’28, in addition to faculty members. In April, the Committee on Trust in Higher Education released a sweeping report that acknowledged declining national trust in universities and proposed measures to address this problem. One of its suggestions was to impose a “3.0 mean, or some other college-wide standard, so that letter grades can once again be used in a reliable and comparable way.”
...Ultimately, it’s the Yale College Committee on Teaching, Learning and Advising that’s gonna make recommendations that the faculty will consider,” Lewis said in an interview with the News...
Full story at https://yaledailynews.com/articles/yale-committee-set-to-release-grade-inflation-guidance-in-november.
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