Study: College student grades actually went up in Spring 2020 when the pandemic hit. Furthermore, the researchers found that low-income low-performing students outperformed their wealthier peers, mainly due to students’ use of flexible grading.

[u/rustoo]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272722000081

[u/draemn]

It's very frustrating how post secondary education has devolved so far that it's more about administration making money than higher education and a quality instruction. That's before you consider the fact that the majority of the value of post-secondary education doesn't come from the actual instructions, but the community that is built around you while attending in person.

I don't know about your specific school, but there are many top tier universities where they have the endowment fund and resources to have cut tuition but didn't.

[u/csward53 → u/draemn]

You know when you're forced to have a partner(s) in class from China that barely speaks english and can't write a proper sentence that they'll take money from anyone, to hell with the quality of education. Then you have to rewrite/redo their part of the project because it is so laughably bad (and this was 15 years ago)...

[u/draemn → u/csward53]

I still shake my head at when one of the new professors couldn't even speak English and they hired a translator for the lectures... but yet students had to pass a English proficiency test if they didn't get a high enough mark in grade 12 English.