An Oregon university announced they will abandon failing letter grades, citing a "GPA fixation" that negatively impacts students. Western Oregon University issued a news release earlier this month ...

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 ...

Joy Malak floundered through her freshman year in college. "I had to learn how to balance my finances. I had to learn how to balance work and school and the relationship I'm in." The hardest part ...

As graduate student employees continue to strike for better wages and health care, the University of Michigan is pressuring department chairs to submit grades for students they haven’t taught, ...

The University of California, Santa Cruz, was opened as an experimental progressive campus built among a dense forest of redwoods, bay laurels and California oaks. Credit: Amanda Cain for The ...

The GPA at UB is the ratio of the number of grade points earned at UB to the number of graded credits at UB. Only letter grades are utilized in determining GPA; letter grades are “A,” “A-,” “B+,” “B,” ...

Grading is used to provide feedback and evaluate student work. Instructors communicate to students about their performance, where they need more help to achieve the course's goals and highlight ...

G rades at American universities have been rising for decades, a trend that accelerated during the Covid-19 pandemic. But what happened after that? Using new data collected through the 2023-24 school ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (Stacker.com) – Formal education systems have been in place for thousands of years—from the earliest examples of China’s Xia dynasty schooling that began in 2070 B.C., to the robust, ...

Judging by movement in the legislature, you’d think there’s a significant problem at Arizona’s three universities with students being punished with poor grades solely because of their political views ...