Within the last decade the competition for jobs has increased significantly. With jobs becoming more scarce and rare, the pressure for higher education is put onto students today. In high school students are instructed to stride for excellence to hopefully receive that acceptance letter to the prestigious college of their dreams. But with all that hard work does it really teach them anything when they get to college? Recently the concept of college inflation around collegiate schools today has risen tremendously. College students are receiving higher grades for assignments or work that would have received lower grades in the past. This idea of inflation for grades is absurd. Although college students today are receiving near perfect grades
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With the intentions that other schools would incorporate this idea Princeton stood alone. With no other schools willing to compromise, this left the Princeton student body outraged, complaining that with decreased availability in the job market that the campaign against bulked GPAs is coming at their own expense. What Princeton is doing with their new corral on grade inflation is the smart and right thing to do. If students today are receiving higher grades that would have gotten lower grades in the past this isn't teaching the students a thing. It’s only showing the students it is acceptable to do the same level of work that previous students were doing years before them. It doesn’t teach them that they need to exceed and continue to create better and stronger work in their assignments. Even though the Princeton students may be at a disadvantage the university is doing the right thing by showing them that you need to earn the work that you turn in. Sure the college grade inflation has benefitted students at other universities but did they really earn the grade they receive? Was the grade given to them in the idea to hopefully keep the schools gpa average at a high number, or was it given to them because they continued to nag their professor to give them and A on and assignment. At first glance the grade
With the intentions that other schools would incorporate this idea Princeton stood alone. With no other schools willing to compromise, this left the Princeton student body outraged, complaining that with decreased availability in the job market that the campaign against bulked GPAs is coming at their own expense. What Princeton is doing with their new corral on grade inflation is the smart and right thing to do. If students today are receiving higher grades that would have gotten lower grades in the past this isn't teaching the students a thing. It’s only showing the students it is acceptable to do the same level of work that previous students were doing years before them. It doesn’t teach them that they need to exceed and continue to create better and stronger work in their assignments. Even though the Princeton students may be at a disadvantage the university is doing the right thing by showing them that you need to earn the work that you turn in. Sure the college grade inflation has benefitted students at other universities but did they really earn the grade they receive? Was the grade given to them in the idea to hopefully keep the schools gpa average at a high number, or was it given to them because they continued to nag their professor to give them and A on and assignment. At first glance the grade