"Undeserved" Grades or "Underserved" Students? Faculty Anxieties and Eroding Standards in the Corporate University

Autor/inn/en	Horowitz, Mark; Haynor, Anthony L.; Kickham, Kenneth
Titel	"Undeserved" Grades or "Underserved" Students? Faculty Anxieties and Eroding Standards in the Corporate University
Quelle	In: Higher Education Politics & Economics, 9 (2023) 1, S.43-84 (42 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2577-7270
Schlagwörter	College Faculty; Teacher Attitudes; Grade Inflation; Academic Standards; Commercialization; Corporate Education; Political Affiliation; Bias; Predictor Variables + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fakultät; Lehrerverhalten; Politisches Interesse; Prädiktor
Abstract	Unsustainable student debt and a precarious labor market continue to raise public doubts over the value of a college degree. Observers note decades of grade inflation, eroding confidence in academic standards. Yet little attention has been paid to the perceptions of professors themselves. This report fills the gap by surveying 223 tenured professors in U.S. public universities. We query faculty on sensitive questions central to debate over academic standards. Results show a substantial fraction of professors affirms the serious problems of grade inflation and declining standards. Moreover, political orientation is the best predictor of where faculty stand on these delicate questions. We close by encouraging viewpoint diversity in higher education and greater self-awareness among liberal faculty of our collective biases. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01