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Harvard faculty take aim at grade inflation by capping 'A' grades for students
Harvard Dean of Undergraduate Education Amanda Claybaugh warned that grade inflation was "damaging the academic culture" of Harvard's undergraduate college
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Reuters - Wed, 20, May 2026
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Harvard University faculty have imposed a limit on the number of "A" grades that can be given to undergraduate students in an effort to end a growing trend of grade inflation at the elite U.S. university.
In hundreds of votes cast over the past week, more than two-thirds of the voting faculty supported a measure allowing them to award A's to no more than one-fifth of the students enrolled in a course, plus up to four more students.
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