Education

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...