SUNY Distinguished Professor of Chemistry lauded for pioneering research and increasing representation in the sciences.

Columbia University is debating the potential elimination of its A-plus grade weight amid rising concerns about grade ...

Members of the Harvard faculty subcommittee that drafted a proposal to cap A grades said Yale’s recent recommendation of a ...

The April 12 editorial “ Harvard’s grade inflation experiment ” did not address a key issue regarding grading science, ...

Faculty at the oldest college in the country are debating whether to limit the number of top grades issued to undergraduates.

Like monetary inflation, runaway A’s in higher education are a collective-action problem. About two-thirds of grades at ...

Data on students’ average grades over the past two decades show that the average grade given at Swarthmore has risen across all divisions.

"Dear Psych 208 students: Apparently we goofed." So began psychology professor Barry Jacobs' email to students Tuesday, one day after he inadvertently disclosed every student's midterm, precept and ...

Feel down about that B+ in chemistry? “A” is now the most common grade awarded at universities in the United States. Between 1990 and 2020, grade point averages rose by over 16%. Known as “grade ...

As a critic, I should probably take offense at the title of “The Last Critic.” The movie is a captivating portrait of Robert Christgau, the legendary music writer who was one of the founding fathers ...

More than five months after a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, a highly contentious legal proceeding arising out of that military conflict remains a sword of Damocles hanging over the State of ...

The math department’s new grading policy is meant to make grading more equitable across different lectures of the same courses. But some students say it closely resembles a quota system – which the ...