A Less Demanding Environment
Want an easy A? Go to college.
Professors worry that rigorous grading could come at the cost of student interest and enrollment. In a climate where colleges are increasingly run as business operations, the customer is always right, and students are calling the shots on grades. More and more, administrators are judging the success of the professor by using student evaluations, and sites like
RateMyProfessors are causing teachers to
inflate students’ grades despite questionable achievement.