Boulder – University of Colorado president Hank Brown said today he wants to tackle grade inflation.
“The grades no longer reveal how you really did,” Brown said after a convocation speech on the Boulder campus.
Brown said he will propose to regents that they change students’ transcripts to disclose class rank or the average grade in the class, which would help potential employers or graduate admissions committees.
The law school is the only school at CU that includes class rank on transcripts.
In a preliminary review, Brown found less grade inflation at CU than at other universities around the country. Still, there has been some grade inflation at the university in the last 15 years, he said.
Brown said high school grades have gone up dramatically in the last two decades, despite little change in scores on standardized tests such as the ACT and SAT.
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