Faculty and administrators at Western Oregon University are aiming to increase student retention rates and foster academic equity by changing the university’s grading system. The small regional ...

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Professors at the University of North Carolina on Friday voted down a proposal to add an "achievement index" to the university grading system. The Faculty Council voted 34-31 to stick with the ...

The College Curriculum Council will consider a proposal to add pluses and minuses to the University grading system at its biweekly meeting Dec. 13. Although the CCC cannot approve the measure ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — One Missouri State University professor is revolutionizing the way students are graded. Dr. Chloe Bolyard, an Associate Professor of Elementary Education, has introduced a new ...

“Adopting this new grading system has the potential to improve our academic culture by reducing competition between and among students, by focusing communication between students and faculty on ...

After two years of discussion, project team administrators, team leads and faculty advisors have begun a phase-out period of the letter grading system for project team credit courses. These changes to ...

Several years ago, during a one-on-one conversation with an art teacher at the middle school where I was principal, I came to an unsettling realization. We were wrestling with the fact that our ...

It’s time for Harvard students to say goodbye to their straight-A’s. On Friday, a committee of faculty advised the school to adopt a 20% cap on A’s to beat back grade inflation — a stark reduction ...

The grades A, B, C, and D may be modified by (+) or (-) suffixes, except that the grade of “A” may not be modified by a (+) suffix. Grade point values per unit are assigned as follows: A = 4.0 A- = ...