According to Paul Mirengoff of Powerline, there’s a committee to deal with the problem.

Committee Takes on Grade Inflation at Dartmouth

I wrote here about the problem of rampant grade inflation at Dartmouth. Last month, the College’s ad hoc committee on grading practices and grade inflation documented the extent of the problem and issued a proposal for addressing it.

The committee’s proposal is thoughtful and worth reading. I want to focus here, though, on the problem of grade inflation.

According to the report, the median grade at Dartmouth in academic year 2013–2014 was A–. 58.7 percent of all grades given to Dartmouth undergraduates were A (34 percent) or A–.

In the early 1970s, when John, Scott, and I were at the College, the average of all grades at Dartmouth was slightly above 3.0 Today, it is just under 3.5. When graphed by year, the increase forms essentially a straight line. Grades have risen by just about .01 per year and just about .1 per decade.

The report finds that grade inflation prevails in nearly every department. Indeed, “A” was the most frequent grade given in 44 of the 46 academic departments and programs in 2013–14.

It’s true, as some readers pointed out the last time I wrote about this issue, that grades are considerably higher in humanities than in social sciences and, especially, sciences. But the rates of change — that is, the inflation — are approximately the same in all three division.