It's something many of us have experienced: You go on your phone to check something and - in the blink of an eye - you've been scrolling for an hour. People estimate more than a third of time on their ...

Vincent Phillip Muñoz is a professor at the University of Notre Dame. University administrators have long known that grade inflation is a problem, but no one has been willing to do much about it. The ...

The blockbuster game Minecraft depicts a world created by cubes: everything is made of discrete building blocks. It may therefore seem particularly unsuitable for calculating pi (π), the mathematical ...

It feels like artificial intelligence is everywhere in higher education news these days. Students at the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University recently expressed public alarm about the ...

Harvard University faculty members voted to impose a cap on A grades in undergraduate courses beginning in the fall of 2027. The new policy at one of America’s most prestigious colleges will limit A ...

Higher education is in trouble — and grades are losing their meaning. That’s the verdict a committee from Yale University reached last month in a report that said universities have strayed from their ...

Harvard faculty voted to impose a roughly 20 percent cap on A grades beginning in fall 2027, approving the College’s most aggressive attempt in decades to reverse grade inflation and reshape academic ...