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 […]
On May 14th, the Wall Street Journal reported that Princeton University’s faculty had voted to require proctoring for in all in-person exams. (Belkin, D. “In Age of AI, Honor Isn’t Enough at Princeton.” Wall Street Journal, 14 May 2026, p. A3.) The change came about in response to the perception on the part of faculty and students that cheating was […]