Posted on 12/03/2023 7:55:35 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I can speak to this topic. STUDENTS give scores for their professors. If a professor gives our ‘real grades’ it leads to low scores, which creates a block for staying at the university. These are evaluations done BY THE UNIVERSITY.
This phenomenon is also hitting the hard sciences. It was a typical practice to have “separation classes” that’d screen out who was capable of becoming a medical doctor. Organic Chemistry, for example.
Now even the hard sciences are being infected with the students revolting when true grades are given out.
Notice also what a complete “A” grade machine the Gender Studies and African American Studies are because... it’s racist to NOT give an “A.”
All of our institutions are under attack from cultural Marxism. A degrading of all academic standards is just yet another symptom of that.
Even with affirmative action, it’s hard to believe Sheila Jackson Lee graduated from any decent school, no less Yale (BA, ‘72) or Virginia (JD, ‘75).
People in Houston will fight you over Ms. Lee.
Absolutely, at universities those false student evaluations are the holy grail. One cannot survive on the faculty without inflating grades.
I do remember an email from an administrator admonishing faculty not to give too many D's, F's and W's. They didn't want to lose the students. The same administrator once told us that all courses should address issues of race, gender and class.
OK, I am a dinosaur
My HS Ag teacher said:
10 is an A
9 is a B
8 is a c
7 is a d
‘you figure the rest’.
Graduated Summa Cum Laude from a Big Ten Med School in the 80’s.
Even back then certain groups were given a pass.
They flunk a class, no biggy. Just keep taking it til you do.
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