In an effort to combat grade inflation, a Harvard faculty committee is proposing to cap the number of A grades they give out in each class.

“In a 19-page proposal released Friday, the committee recommended capping A grades at 20 percent for every class, with flexibility for up to four additional As per class,” the Harvard Crimson reported, adding the proposal has yet to come to a full faculty vote.

“The plan would also introduce an internal ‘average percentile rank’ metric to determine honors and awards — a shift aimed at countering what the committee described as a grading system that no longer meaningfully distinguishes student performance,” the student newspaper reported.

The proposal comes after a report published last fall found that 60 percent of all undergraduate grades are now As – a 35 percent increase compared to 20 years ago.

Economics Professor Jason Furman said he will be supporting the proposal.

“The collective action problem that has driven grades higher & higher over time is increasingly problematic. I hope other institutions consider similar steps,” he posted on X.

But the proposal has prompted swift disapproval from students. More than two dozen interviews with the Crimson showed “students overwhelmingly urged faculty to reject the proposal,” the Crimson reported.

“You accept a bunch of top 3 percent students in the country and then get surprised that we’re getting all As,” one student said.

“It just cuts collaboration. It cuts intellectual conversations. It just encourages people to reserve their own knowledge for the sake of beating everybody in the classroom,” another told the newspaper.

“More spread out grades in a class is only harming the kids that are working hard,” another said.

But apparently professors are already pulling back on their A grades.

As The College Fix reported late last month, students received fewer As in their fall semester classes following concerns about academic rigor and massive grade inflation at the Ivy League institution.

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