{"id":172,"date":"2005-09-20T11:01:27","date_gmt":"2005-09-20T19:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2005\/09\/nyt-fewer-as-at-princeton\/"},"modified":"2005-09-20T11:01:27","modified_gmt":"2005-09-20T19:01:27","slug":"nyt-fewer-as-at-princeton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2005\/09\/nyt-fewer-as-at-princeton\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Fewer “A”s at Princeton"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times<\/i>: <a href=”http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/09\/20\/nyregion\/20grades.html”<\/a><\/p>\n

Princeton University significantly reduced the number of A’s it gave out last year, according to a report released yesterday by the university, but it still wants to do more.<\/p>\n

Roughly 41 percent of the grades given in undergraduate courses last year were A-pluses, A’s or A-minuses, down from 46 percent the previous year and 48 percent the year before that. In April 2004, the Princeton faculty set a goal of 35 percent. The school year that ended in May was the first year under the policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times: <a href=”http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/09\/20\/nyregion\/20grades.html” Princeton University significantly reduced the number of A’s it gave out last year, according to a report released yesterday by the university, but it still wants to do more. Roughly 41 percent of the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2273],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}