UC weighs return of SAT amid early signs of changing views and faculty pressure

Six years after dropping the SAT and ACT, the University of California is weighing a return to standardized testing following ...
Idaho Public Press on MSN

The Harvard STEM trap Malcolm Gladwell wants students to avoid

Malcolm Gladwell’s warning about Harvard and STEM taps into a larger college-admissions problem: prestige can help, but peer ...
The Hollywood Reporter

What Hollywood Can Teach Harvard

Tinseltown titans from 'Mad Men' creator Matthew Weiner to the cast of 'Veep' recently flocked to the Institute of Politics in Cambridge to educate future leaders on the art of storytelling. By Marc ...
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 ...
WBUR

Harvard faculty votes to limit A's in undergrad courses

Harvard will limit how many A’s professors hand out in undergraduate courses starting in the 2027-28 academic year in an effort to stem grade inflation at the university following a faculty vote this ...
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, ...
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Cast Your Vote for the 2026 XXL Freshman Class 10th Spot

The 2026 XXL Freshman Class is on the way, and fans once again have a say in one artist who makes the final cut. Before the official cover drops, you can help decide which artist secures the 10th spot ...