Harvard faculty votes to limit number of A's awarded, aiming to combat grade inflation

Harvard University faculty members voted to cap the number of A's awarded to students in an effort to make the grades more ...

Harvard faculty votes to make it harder for undergrads to earn A’s

Top grades have become so common that some Harvard faculty members argued they no longer reliably distinguished exceptional ...

Harvard faculty vote to limit A grades for undergraduates

Harvard faculty voted to cap the number of A grades given to undergraduates, taking assertive action to reverse years of ...

Harvard faculty vote to cap 'A' grades at 20% in sweeping effort to combat decades of grade inflation

Harvard faculty voted to limit A grades to 20% of undergraduate course enrollment in a major step to combat decades of grade ...

60 Percent of Grades at Harvard Were A’s. Enough Is Enough.

Ultimately, grade inflation hurts not just the quality of individual students’ education; it hurts the university — any ...

Harvard faculty vote overwhelmingly in favor of capping ‘A’ grades

Harvard faculty voted overwhelmingly in favor of capping the number of A grades — not A-minuses — at 20% of students in a ...

60% of Harvard Grades Were A's in 2025. Now the School Is Fighting Grade Inflation.

In the 2024–2025 school year, 60.2 percent of grades awarded at Harvard were A's, according to the school's Office of ...

Harvard’s grading reset begins in 2027: Faculty vote to curb easy A’s in undergraduate courses

Harvard University is implementing a new grading policy to combat grade inflation, limiting A grades to 20% of students ...
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At Harvard, an A could no longer be a grade 'everyone expects'

Harvard faculty are voting this week on a proposal to cap the number of A grades awarded in undergraduate courses in order to ...
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Illinois flips in-state wide receiver from Harvard

CHAMPAIGN — Illinois will kick off the 2026 season in just more than 100 days, but that doesn't mean Bret Bielema is done ...

Harvey C. Mansfield’s Honorable Quest To Educate Harvard

In a 1975 essay exploring Leo Strauss’ interpretation of Machiavelli, Harvey C. Mansfield asserts that “no paragraph in The ...