As of July 1st, short-term vocational training programs qualify for Pell Grants which until now have generally been available only to undergraduates getting associate or bachelor degrees. The grants are around $2,200, which in many instances cover the total cost of training for the credential. To qualify, a program must be between 8 to 15 weeks long and meet certain...
As of early June, over 1,400 University of California (UC) faculty across the University’s campuses have signed on to a letter asking the UC Board of Regents, the UC Office of the President and the UC Academic Senate leadership to require undergraduate STEM applicants, starting with the 2027-28 admissions cycle, to submit an SAT or ACT math score. The letter...
Harvard’s overabundance of A grades had increasingly become a point of contention. To address a concern that Harvard’s grading system had become too compressed at the top to distinguish truly exceptional work from merely strong performance, Harvard’s faculty overwhelming voted to cap the number of A grades awarded in a given course at 20%. The new policy applies to the...
On May 13th, UC Berkley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) published a study authored by Igor Chirikov that examined the impact of AI on grade inflation. (Chirikov, I (2026). Artificial Intelligence and Grade Inflation. CSHE Higher Education Working Paper Series, Vol. 26-3.) The study analyzed more than half a million grades from 2018 to 2025 at a large...
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