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Princeton considers dropping A+
By Stella Maria Baer | October 20, 1999A committee concerned with grade inflation at Princeton University recently proposed the abolition of the A+ and released new data revealing a quarter century-long trend of rising grades amongst Princeton's professors. Princeton's newspaper -- The Daily Princetonian -- reported that the average grade at Princeton has risen steadily from a 3.05 to a 3.34 over the last 25 years, and Nancy Malkiel, chair of the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing at Princeton, is making every possible effort to reduce grade inflation at the University. The committee's proposals are geared toward raising professors' consciousness of the grades they give with an eye towards a gradual deflation.