[fwdude]

This has been the case for decades.

Meritocracy has become synonymous with “racism.”

[Jim W N]

Harvard Admits That Grades Have Lost Their Meaning

Only to the reprobate.

[Billthedrill]

“You get a degree! YOU get a degree!! EVERYBODY gets a degree!!!”

[Da Coyote]

Grades?
Harvard has lost its meaning.

[chajin]

When my son matriculated into Rose-Hulman a generation ago, in the president’s opening speech, he said two things. One was that no one was accepted to the college who hadn’t already demonstrated that s/he could graduate from the college. The other was that at Rose-Hulman, a C was the equivalent of an A anywhere else.

[chajin]

There are high schools where students are proficient in basic meth, and everyone is weeded out but still there.

[ComputerGuy]

Grades lost their meaning when you started giving unequal treatment to applicants of different races.

[stanne]

Grades have lost their meaning?

That’s pretty self centric

I believe they mean Harvard’s grades have lost meaning

[Mariner]

Start handing out c, d and f’s and revenue will decline sharply.

The fact of the matter is that most of the students in any college are too stupid to be there.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

According to the report, professors feel pressure to maintain high enrollments and avoid low “Q-scores,” Harvard’s course-evaluation metric. Teaching fellows worry that poor “Q-scores” will limit their job prospects.

There are a lot of reasons for grade inflation but letting the lunatics rule the asylum is a big one. Professors are afraid of students. Not only must they give the student an "A" but they also have to be very careful what they say to avoid offending their incredibly delicate / Woke sensibilities.

[Carry_Okie]

When I was studying engineering in the 80s, grade inflation was a general problem back then, but at Harvey Mudd College the catchword phrase with respect to “Big Systems” was, “D for DONE!!!”

[Honorary Serb]

The last time I gave out grades as a faculty member, (at a elite university), every one of my students received an A!

However, this was a graduate course in biotech, with rigorous labs and tough exams. The students, many of whom were already in industry, were truly outstanding!

Harvard College students are for the most part outstanding. However, they need tough grading to keep them focused on their classes, not just extracurriculars!

[popdonnelly]

Education has lost its meaning.

[Bullish]

Well, since all they care about is churning out anti-capitalist communism why worry about stupid grades?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Sobering news.

Many years ago (1974-75) I was the first fish at Texas A&M “in years” to earn two Distinguished Student ribbons while earning a Fish Drill Team member cord and ribbon. (A 3.80 first semester, 3.40 second semester. OK, good grades as a Nuc Engineering student, but not “outstanding” by any means.)

So, I'm funding 100.00 scholarships to “the FDT member with the highest grade”. 14 of the active Drill Team members got 4.0 grades. (Includes the 32 freshmen drilling, and the sophomore, junior, and senior trainers, so the comparison is not 100%. But very surprising.)

[Jim Noble]

The Harvard student might as well get the Big Red H to hang on the wall the day he gets the acceptance letter.

You can flunk out of Salem State - but you can’t flunk out of Harvard.

[Honorary Serb]

On the other hand, there was that Physical Chemistry professor at MIT back in the day (Walter Thorson, a hardline Calvinist), who graded so hard that the Chem department had to intervene to fix the situation and prevent nearly the whole class of chemists and biologists from flunking out!

The chemical engineers had their own Thermodynamics course, so were exempt from thus debacle!

I somehow earned a B in Physical Chemistry! That B made the chemists just as jealous as they were of my As in Organic Chemistry courses! Besides that, I got all Cs in the Math courses that were prerequisite to Physical Chemistry, but still earned that B!

[TexasFreeper2009]

the only way to keep the blacks they only let in to be woke not fail is to inflate the grades for all.

[Svartalfiar]

Harvard’s own faculty aren’t happy about it. Many believe there is little “resolving power at the top,” which leaves students without an accurate sense of how they’re performing compared to others.

....They're the ones handing out all the As! They're the ones in the best position to fix the problem!

[Svartalfiar]

Teachers struggle to distinguish between merely “satisfactory” and “outstanding” work, and prize committees find it harder to differentiate between students with identical GPAs.

It's actually very easy to do. Excepting labs or more advanced/theoretical classes, the majority of a degree (and the related liberal arts required chunk) is classes that are knowledge regurgitation or basic application. Set up your exams where:

10-20% of the questions are easy, everyone should get 100% on.
50-60% of the questions are regular material that a regular student gets 90% of.
30% of the exam are hard conceptual/advanced questions that have not been taught in class and require putting material together or thinking beyond or outside the box. Expect 20-50% of these to be correctly answered.

Hey, now you'll have the average student scoring in the 70-80% range, and the "outstanding" students you're looking for will still have their As, and actually deserve them!