Neetu Arnold’s proposal (“Whip Grade Inflation Now,” op-ed, June 17) is sensible and would go a long way toward making college grades more meaningful.
It’s very similar to the Contextual Transcript policy the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty council adopted back in 2011. I led that effort, which was unfortunately never implemented. The contextual transcript would have reported each grade along with statistics as to where that grade fell in the class’s distribution. It would have also reported a student’s “Schedule Point Average,” a measure of how the students’ traditional grade point average compares to other students in the same mix of classes.