Way That Grades Are Set Is a Mark Against Professors

The grade inflation situation is so bad that even though it has nothing to do with my ordinary topics I have to post it. After all, I'm a university professor. Hey, nobody is perfect.

"• In 1966 at Harvard, 22% of all grades were A's; in 2003, 46% of all grades were A's. Similarly, a UCLA study reports that in 1968, 22% of all grades at 18 colleges and universities were A's, but by 2002 that percentage had risen to 47%.

• A recent Princeton University study reports that between 44% and 55% of all grades at the Ivy League schools, MIT, Stanford and the University of Chicago are A's today.

• Less than 10% of all grades given out at Duke University are Cs, according to an article by Duke professor Stuart Rojstaczer; in 1969, more than 25% were."

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This is from a Los Angeles Times commentary piece by Roger Arnold, an economics professor at Cal State San Marcos. It is worth reading in its entirety.