Harvard will cap number of A grades awarded, in what university calls "a major step to fix" inflation

Harvard University faculty members voted to cap the number of A's awarded to students in an effort to make the grades more ...

60 Percent of Grades at Harvard Were A’s. Enough Is Enough.

Ultimately, grade inflation hurts not just the quality of individual students’ education; it hurts the university — any ...

Harvard faculty pass a new cap on number of As they can give to students

Harvard University faculty have overwhelmingly passed a new cap on the number of As they can give out to students in undergraduate courses, with a goal to restore meaning to letter grades. At Harvard, ...
New York Magazine

Harvard Will Manufacture a Scarcity of A’s

Starting in the fall of 2027, Harvard undergrads will be competing for a limited number of available A grades in each of ...

Harvard faculty votes to make it more difficult for undergrads to earn A’s

At Harvard University, earning straight A’s is about to get harder. Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced ...

Harvard Faculty Votes To Cap How Many A's Professors Hand Out

Following months of debate, Harvard faculty voted to cap the number of A grades awarded per course. The policy goes into ...
The Harvard Crimson

70% of Faculty Vote to Overhaul Harvard Grading With A Cap

Harvard faculty voted to impose a roughly 20 percent cap on A grades beginning in fall 2027, approving the College’s most ...
Nature

Researchers who use hallucinated references to face arXiv ban

The preprint server is the latest to impose stiff penalties on authors who contribute to AI ‘slop’ — but not everyone is ...

Harvard Asks Federal Judge to Dismiss Trump Lawsuit

The Trump administration sued Harvard earlier this year over allegations it had not done enough to combat antisemitism on ...
PBS

Judge reverses Trump administration's cuts of billions in research funding to Harvard

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Boston on Wednesday ordered the reversal of the Trump administration's cuts to more than $2.6 billion in funding for research grants for Harvard University. U.S.
EDN

Power Tips #152: Design considerations and topology comparisons for 48V intermediate bus converters

Increasing power demands in data centers demand high-efficiency, high-density power-conversion solutions. Figure 1 shows a block diagram of power distribution inside an IT tray. A 48V bus bar goes ...
Nature

Thousands of Harvard graduate students strike — bringing research to a halt

Two thousand graduate student workers who went on strike at Harvard University starting on 21 April have brought a sizeable chunk of the institution’s teaching and research activities to a halt.