
How Our University Reacted to an Exposé of its Grade Inflation Problem
In a 2011 Pope Center article entitled “Too Many Rhinestones,” Professors T. Norman Van Cott and the late Clarence Deitsch examined Ball State University’s (BSU) grade inflation problem. After comparing grade distributions and grade point averages (GPAs) from Fall 1990 and Fall 2009 in principles-level courses, they found that BSU was no exception to the … Continue reading “How Our University Reacted to an Exposé of its Grade Inflation Problem”