Harvard’s Push to Cap ‘A’ Grades Has Students Howling in Protest
Faculty vote next week on whether to limit A’s; undergrads decry the move as ‘crude’ and ‘absurd’
A survey conducted by Harvard’s undergrad student government found that about 94% of students oppose the policy to cap A’s, based on over 800 responses.
“The fact that this policy even MIGHT go into effect with 94% student disapproval is absurd and goes to show how much this administration cares about us,” said one commenter on a Harvard discussion forum.
Harvard administrators and some faculty counter that the goal is to fix the culture and challenge students to invest in their coursework. The school has a duty to protect the value of students’ degrees by curbing grade inflation, said Amanda Claybaugh, the dean of undergraduate education.
