A professor has the obligation to assign grades in accordance with the guidelines established by the campus at which he or she teaches (“Court Says Public University Can Fire Professor for Refusing to ...

It’s not uncommon for students to run into issues with their professors. While most professors are supportive of students and invested in their learning, students frequently encounter at least one ...

A professor at a “large public university” bumped up the average grade of an entire class... after one student demonstrated her integrity upon receiving an erroneously high test score. “A student ...

Students sometimes ask professors to round their grade up to the next highest letter grade. This practice is known as grade bumping. (Photo illustration by Preston Crawley) The end of a semester can ...

It's not just students, more professors are using AI in the classroom. But they say more guidance is needed on how to use the ...

University of Akron officials this week blocked a professor from carrying out his plan to raise female students’ grades as part of what he called a “national movement to encourage female students to ...

A recent Kaplan Test Prep survey showed that almost half of college students use Web sites like RateMyProfessors.com to select classes that are rated as easy, which may be a factor in grade inflation ...

Are today’s college professors easier graders than yesterday’s college professors? Are they giving away grades? Consider the following: * In 1966 at Harvard, 22% of all grades were A’s; in 2003, 46% ...

As often happens with attention-grabbing issues in higher education, much of the conversation about grade inflation is focused on the most-selective colleges. But Peter Burkholder, a professor of ...

CUNY just can’t seem to keep pervy profs off the payroll. In a shocking Brooklyn federal court lawsuit, a female undergraduate claims her human-anatomy professor at LaGuardia Community College, Hany ...