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SUNY is turning to mandatory tutoring to get students through intro math and writing classes

With a record number of new college students failing their first-year English or math class, SUNY is redesigning those ...
The Hill

Harvard’s new cap on ‘A’ grades is doomed to fail

Harvard College recently voted to cap A grades in its undergraduate courses. More specifically, it said that no more than 20 percent of the grades given for any course in the college can be an A.
Black Enterprise

New Harvard Course Studies Beyoncé, Cowboy Carter To Educate Students On Public Policy

The course is titled "American Requiem: Beyoncé, Benefits and the Gap Between Promise and Delivery" A new course at Harvard Kennedy School is using Beyoncé and Cowboy Carter as a lens to examine gaps ...
Fox News

Harvard faculty vote to cap 'A' grades at 20% in sweeping effort to combat decades of grade inflation

Harvard faculty voted in favor of capping A grades at 20% on Wednesday in an effort to combat grade inflation. "Today the Harvard faculty voted to make their grades mean what they say they mean," a ...
Wall Street Journal

Harvard Votes to Cap A’s in Effort to Curb Grade Inflation

It’s about to get harder to earn an A at Harvard. The faculty voted to approve a cap on the number of A’s per course, part of the undergraduate college’s yearslong effort to curb grade inflation. The ...
Inside Higher Ed

Harvard Will Cap A Grades

The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Tuesday wrapped up a vote to cap the number of A grades at 20 percent per course, plus or minus four A’s. The policy proposal, which faculty have ...
Los Angeles Times

Fast-track ‘alumni’ boom: How short courses at Harvard and Stanford became big business

Achieving alumni status at an institution like the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School or Stanford used to mean years spent on campus and an outlay of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now, ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Men’s Heavies Set Course Record in Sweep of Northeastern

Harvard Men’s Heavies Set Course Record in Sweep of Northeastern Harvard heavyweight crew's varsity eight set a new course record on the Charles River with its impressive time of 5:28.212. | By Thara ...
The Washington Post

An oral history of the Harvard Lampoon, the college magazine that remade comedy

150 years ago, a bunch of smart-aleck Ivy Leaguers paved the way for “Saturday Night Live,” “Animal House” and “The Simpsons.” Along the way they pulled off epic pranks and acquired a castle. This is ...
The Washington Post

Harvard’s grade inflation experiment

A graduate of the Kennedy School of Government carries an inflatable globe during commencement exercises in Harvard Yard last May. They think they've got the whole world in their hands. (Josh Reynolds ...
Forbes

Harvard Set To Join Ivy League Peers In Sharing Small Language Courses

Harvard will conduct a pilot where it partners with other Ivy League institutions to offer instruction in less commonly taught foreign languages. Harvard University plans to join three of its Ivy ...