Posts Tagged ‘grade deflation’

Dean Malkiel Leaves Princeton for Standard & Poor’s

It may seem like a completely different line of work, but former Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel says her new job isn’t as different from her position at Princeton as many would expect.  Instead, in an exclusive interview, she has told the Tiger that her new role as chief analyst at Standard &...
August 11th, 2011 | Economy, Princeton | Read More

Princeton University Reverses Controversial Policy

After several years of experimentation, Princeton University announced a plan to remove a generally-disliked policy and revert to the original system.  As President Shirley Tilghman explains in an article on Princeton’s website, in adopting the policy, “we [had] hoped other colleges and universities...
February 24th, 2011 | Princeton | Read More

A Petrarchan Sonnet for Dean’s Date

How soon, so soon! our finals week arrives! It drives the best of us up to the brink And the rest of all of us to heavy drink. But we are Princeton so this is our lives. Our dean, you see, so fiendishly connives, A tricky way to make sure that we think. For most of us will see our grade-points sink For...
January 10th, 2011 | Princeton | Read More

A Christmas Carrel

Excerpts from “A Christmas Carrel” * * * Dean Malkiel peered into the darkness beyond her bed, and lo! a pale white figure emerged from the bedroom wall!  “I am the Ghost of Princeton Past!” said the Apparition.  The green collar of its polo shirt stood erect, and Aviators...
December 25th, 2010 | Fiction/Poetry, Princeton | Read More

University Trustees to Implement Pay Deflation for Faculty

The success of Princeton University’s grade deflation has prompted the University’s Board of Trustees to implement a similar policy in order to curb rising faculty and administrator salaries, under which only the top 35% of faculty and administrators will receive their paychecks at the end...
May 4th, 2010 | Princeton | Read More

U.S. News & World Successfully Curbs Rank Inflation – Princeton Administrators Unaware of Irony

In what Princetonians across the nation are calling “bullshit,” the university has fallen to second place in U.S. News & World Report’s college rankings. When asked to comment on letting such dishonor befall Princeton under her watch, president Tilghman was Clintonesque in her response....
September 14th, 2008 | Princeton | Read More

Chairman’s Address – February 2007 Issue

All this business about grade deflation begs the real question: when are we going to stop kidding ourselves and accept the fact that Princeton’s all ABOUT competition? It’s high time we stopped complaining, like girlie-men, and got on with it. After all, we competed to get in here, and once...
February 2nd, 2007 | Chairman's Letters | Read More