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Princeton University is halfway to its goal of curbing grade inflation, according to a statement released by Princeton College Dean Nancy W. Malkiel last Monday...
...impressed by the seriousness with which members of the faculty have taken on the challenge of bringing grades under better control,” said Malkiel, on behalf of the Grading Committee, in the press release. “After so many years of steady grade inflation, we have actually been able to move the needle in the other direction, in a remarkably short period of time...
...grade deflation policy was met with considerable controversy when it was announced in 2004, with students citing concerns about the possible impact of deflated grades on graduate school enrollment and post-collegiate job placement. A year and a half later, some students still harbor reservations about the policy...
...think in general the student body is pretty reasonable and we recognize that grade inflation is an issue that many Universities have to deal with, including ours,” Undergraduate Student Government President Leslie-Bernard Joseph wrote in an e-mail. “What concerns students most are those instances where we feel we are graded down, especially unfairly, in the name of grade deflation...
Princeton’s new policy was implemented in part as a response to outside pressure placed on elite institutions to curb grade inflation—pressure not limited to its campus. In 2001, Harvard came under similar public scrutiny when the Boston Globe published an article revealing that 91 percent of seniors that year had graduated with honors...