Concerning The Cavalier Daily’s recent article on my grade inflation work (Research cites grade inflation as cause for national increase in GPA, 3/16/2009), I appreciate the newspaper creating awareness about the problem of grade inflation and think the article reflects my work accurately except in one respect. I do not believe nor did I mean to suggest that grade inflation is the sole factor for rising grades nationwide. It is the dominant factor nationwide, but at an institutional level, factors like increased student quality can and do play a subsidiary role.
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By Tom Neale | December 15, 2025The critiques of Mahoney and the Board of Visitors are egregious double standards that I believe are motivated by political differences with Mahoney and the Board.
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By Concerned Faculty | November 24, 2025Continuing the search now would be all the proof needed to conclude that the Board and Mahoney are acting not in the University’s best interests but pursuant to some other agenda, if further proof were needed.
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