From the Yale Daily News: Around 81 percent of grades awarded at Yale College in the 2024-25 school year were either an A or an A-minus, according to a resolution by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Senate. The 80.75 percent figure represents an uptick from 78.97 percent in the 2022-23 school year, the last year for which data is publicly available. The share had been trending downward since its peak of 81.97 percent in the 2020-21 school year, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The new figure was included in a resolution that the FAS-SEAS Senate passed unanimously on Thursday to urge the College’s Committee on Teaching, Learning and Advising to develop policies that make grades more meaningful while preserving faculty authority and minimizing harm to students. Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis told the News earlier this month that the committee is set to release recommendations on grading in November...
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Senate Faculty Senate... unanimously passed a resolution on grade inflation, urging a Yale College committee to develop grading policies that keep grades meaningful while minimizing harm to students and faculty...
Full story at https://yaledailynews.com/articles/a-a-share-was-higher-in-2024-25-than-in-2022-23-faculty-report-shows and https://yaledailynews.com/articles/faculty-senate-says-new-grading-guidance-should-minimize-student-harm.
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