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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 ...

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 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 ...

Harvard will cap number of A grades awarded, in what university calls "a major step to fix" inflation

Harvard University faculty members voted to cap the number of A's awarded to students in an effort to make the grades more ...
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Gas prices in Mass. are now over $4.50 a gallon. What does that mean for Memorial Day weekend traffic?

The average price of a gallon of gas in Massachusetts has topped $4.50 for this first time since 2022. Here's a look at the ...

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 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 pass a new cap on number of As they can give to students

Harvard University faculty have overwhelmingly passed a new cap on the number of As they can give out to students in undergraduate courses, with a goal to restore meaning to letter grades. At Harvard, ...
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MIT residence hall intruder matches description of Harvard dorm assault suspect, police say

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Massachusetts Institute of Technology police are investigating after an unknown man entered a campus residence hall without authorization and was later linked to a reported assault ...

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 ...

Fast-track ‘alumni’ boom: How short courses at Harvard and Stanford became big business

Achieving alumni status at an institution like the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School or Stanford used to mean years ...