Harvard’s cap on A grades responds to long-running grade inflation and weakening academic standards. Faculty surveys indicate many instructors inflate grades and reduce course content, contributing to compressed grading and diminished rigor. Higher education has become polarized, with conservatives emphasizing ideological conformity and lowered standards, while liberals focus on corporatization and inequality and dismiss ideological critiques. A post-tribal approach avoids blaming sides and instead examines structural and cultural drivers of outcomes such as students studying less while earning higher GPAs. Restoring differentiation between strong and average work supports merit and hard effort, while cultivating citizens requires more than technical training. One-sided classroom thinking undermines trust and limits students’ intellectual growth.
"A post-tribal approach drops any "good guy/bad guy" framing and examines the structural and cultural forces producing outcomes no one wants: compressed grading, diminished rigor, and students studying less while earning higher GPAs."
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