In an effort to combat grade inflation, the Faculty Council at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill approved a new policy that would include median grades for courses on students’ transcripts.
The policy, which was approved by a 21-13 vote, will apply to students entering the university in 2012.
In addition to course’s median grades, students’ transcripts will also include their percentile rank in the course and a “scheduled point average,” the average median grade for all students taking the same courses as the student in question.
“I don’t think it’s fair to say it punishes or undermines students,” said Andrew Perrin, the associate chairman of the sociology department who also served as chairman of the committee that made the recommendation. “My hope is ... that administrators will sit down with faculty and say, ‘When you gave 83 percent A’s in the class, did you really mean it?’ ”
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