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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t wait for this era to end.[b] A bunch of professors jacking themselves off about how intellectual they are and how they cannot possibly handle this generation[/b]. If you’re a tenured professor (as most of these professors are in op-Ed’s and making big decisions) talk to your chair and enact the standards you want to see. The chair should be able to work with admin so you can make your classes as demonically difficult as you desire.

On the other hand, if the goal is actual education, we should look towards more feedback and less reliance on grades. We’ve spent decades trying to quantify what an A or B or C is, and it has done almost nothing for us. Nonetheless, the qualitative nature of A as “Excellent” has stuck around, so people have some conception of why these qualitative descriptions are useful. Instead of spelling out every way to get an A in your course with insanely detailed rubrics, eschew from that model of cattle-like education. Actually connect with your students and the evaluations and scores will come naturally.[/quote]

That's not what they are saying.  They are saying that there is such a disparity of needs in the class (due to TO and woke stuff) that they cannot effectively teach.   That's fair.[/quote]
“I can’t teach effectively because there are black kids in my class.” That’s what you’re saying. It’s racist and boring.

These schools classes are test required and they still have issues. What’s the next boogeyman?

They can’t effectively teach because they’ve diluted their own standards and refuse to improve their teaching. They mostly have no solutions to the AI problem, and they have not self reflected that THEY give out grades. If an A means nothing at Harvard, I’m blaming faculty, not students. Students don’t make grades, they earn them. Faculty at Harvard should be embarrassed by themselves, and their obsession with calling the younger generation incompetent all while they are full professors with 1/10 of the work needed today to become a full professor is hilarious.[/quote]

Professors were at a disadvantage previously because they felt "compelled" to give better grades in fear that their evaluations would be compromised.  So instead of obtaining the support from the institution to decrease the importance of evaluations, they are instead putting this back on the students.

If professors feel pressured to inflate grades because student evaluations affect their careers, that points to a flaw in how institutions evaluate professors, not necessarily a justification for rigid grade caps. A forced limit on A grades might reduce the incentive to inflate grades, but it can also prevent high-performing students from receiving grades that accurately reflect their work.  The better solution is to address the underlying incentive structure and evaluation methods, rather than imposing uniform grading limits across different classes, disciplines, and student populations.  [/quote]
100% agreed and the reason this annoys me particularly is that Harvard faculty have the opportunity to push for shared governance, but that would outline them having a responsibility beyond spurning students. This decision is shockingly inept.[/quote]

If I was a Harvard professor, it's easier to vote for this than have to deal with the extra work/headache to actually address the underlying issues.[/quote]

Curious what you mean by "the underlying issues?"[/quote]

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