grade inflation

By Donald Hurwitz GRADE INFLATION. The subject is hardly new, and it is real: GPAs on college campuses sit on the border of A-/B+, and grades have ratcheted up a notch every decade or so. It’s hard to make much of academic administrators’…

Since we have a grading system that sets C in the middle, as the median, then we need to start treating C as the norm it truly is.

On the AdjunctNation.com Web site, we asked users to tell us whether they had ever inflated grades to get more positive student evaluations. Almost 20 percent of the 400+ faculty who responded admitted that they had, in fact,…

by A. Botein-Furrevig, Ph.D. In Garrison Keillor’s mythical town of Lake Wobegon, the men are strong, the women are beautiful, and the children are above average. Judging by college transcripts nowadays, it seems that our children are…

by Chris Cumo Part-time faculty should think twice before marking up a stack of essays. An adjunct lecturer at Southern Connecticut State University, who spoke on condition of anonymity, suspects she lost a part-time stint at another…