High Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship

Testing Moderate Madness: Legitimation and the Persistence of Grade Inflation at Princeton University

Grade inflation is widely documented in selective higher education, yet sustained institutional attempts to restrain it are rare and often short-lived. This article examines Princeton University’s 2004–2014 numerical grading policy as a difficult test of a process theory of stabl...

Testing Moderate Madness: Legitimation and the Persistence of Grade Inflation at Princeton University

Grade inflation is widely documented in selective higher education, yet sustained institutional attempts to restrain it are rare and often short-lived. This article examines Princeton University’s 2004–2014 numerical grading policy as a difficult test of a process theory of stabl...