Higher education has always been something people have aspired toward. However, it is not a simple task to achieve such a thing, or so it seemed until recent years. Student averages have been steadily increasing, although standardized tests have shown that intelligence is actually decreasing (McCall, M., 2011). Grade inflation has been an increasing problem throughout higher education systems. If grade inflation persists, higher education can become nothing more than a simple novelty. Professors play a huge role in grade inflation throughout universities. Giving students bad grades in a class could reflect poorly on the teacher themselves. It could mean that the professor isn’t very good at the one thing they were hired to do- teach. In addition, if a professor is just beginning, they may not know quite what to expect from their students. They will tend to grade more lenient. However, as time goes on, they will become more experienced and start to see the difference between good work and bad (McCall, M., 2011). On top of that, professors don’t necessarily have a lot of job security, especially if they are adjunct professors. Students will typically get the chance to evaluate the professor at the end of the semester; if they were given bad grades, or even flunked, it would affect the way students evaluate that professor in a negative …show more content…
Failing students has an awful effect on a school's student retention; if a student is failed, they are more likely to “be asked to leave the institution for failure to meet the school’s academic standards” (McCall, M., 2011). Not only that, the amount of open-access colleges have been increasing in recent years. Colleges such as these are more likely to attract students who are “less academically skilled” (McCall, M., 2011). In order to encourage students to keep attending and pushing toward higher educations, institutions will encourage grade