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 ...

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Professors at the University of North Carolina on Friday voted down a proposal to add an "achievement index" to the university grading system. The Faculty Council voted 34-31 to stick with the ...

The College Curriculum Council will consider a proposal to add pluses and minuses to the University grading system at its biweekly meeting Dec. 13. Although the CCC cannot approve the measure ...

SANTA CRUZ — The first step on the road to obtaining a coveted Bachelor of Science degree can be laden with potholes: supersized classes, difficult material and rigorous grading. “You’re like a ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — One Missouri State University professor is revolutionizing the way students are graded. Dr. Chloe Bolyard, an Associate Professor of Elementary Education, has introduced a new ...

“Adopting this new grading system has the potential to improve our academic culture by reducing competition between and among students, by focusing communication between students and faculty on ...

At its final meeting of the academic year Thursday, Arts & Sciences Council approved a proposal to revise the satisfactory/unsatisfactory grading system that will ...

After two years of discussion, project team administrators, team leads and faculty advisors have begun a phase-out period of the letter grading system for project team credit courses. These changes to ...

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