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Economics Professor Kendrick Morales recently declared that Spelman College fired him because he did not cave to students’ demands for higher grades and easier coursework.
Moralesisnot alone in claiming he wasforcedto invent nice-feeling grades for unserious students. In 2022,New York Universityfired a professor after his students complained about failing his course. In 2020, aHarvard University professor withdrew traditional penalties for academic dishonesty if his students admittedthey were sorry for cheating.
Butthese outcomes are nottheworst part ofthegrade inflation trend.Thebiggest problemisthestudentsthemselves.
Gen Z students choose to secure fake grades rather than master new skills because the “adults” on campus enable their entitlement.
GenZhas provenitselfto be aWastedGenerationthat throws away opportunities to be challenged and grow as people. Its success at this endeavorisan American tragedy.
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GenZisindeed charting a future of mediocrity because it would rather settle for less than try and fail at big goals. This aversion to setbacksisa stark contrast tothe”worldisyour oyster” mentality of ambition thatgenerations beforethem espoused whenthey struck outintotheworld.
GenZstudents choose to secure fake grades rather than master new skills becausethe”adults” oncampusenabletheir entitlement. By doing so, college administrators and students collude to risk America’s future, andtheresults are terrifying.
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TheAmerican economy needs a young, energetic workforce with ambition and gumption to innovate and push our country forward. Higher education – victim totheWastedGeneration’s entitled activism that it enables –isrobbing America of that continued promise.
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We cannot expect to realizethejoys and benefits of American excellence when higher education conditionsthemost “educated” citizens to demand less ofthemselves and each other.
ButGenZtrends, including “quiet quitting” and “lazy girl jobs,” bleedintoAmerican society as unmotivated students graduate and take entry-level positions. Nearly a third of college students do not care abouttheir grades and over 80% of young Americans enjoytheidea of puttingthebare minimumintotheir work.
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Collegeissupposed to show young people thatthereisvalue to struggle and failure because successisonly achievable after experiencing both. Higher educationisfailing at that mission.
I’m an adjunct professor who has taught at public and private institutions. I have failed multiple students becausethey were not ready for more advanced work. I have failed freshmen who came to college unprepared becausetheir high school teachers failedthem. Failure and struggle are a part of life, and no rewarding life can be built without those experiences.
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We recently learned that in 2020, Stanford University students conspired with each other toblacklist professors who did not cancel assignments or give A’s to individuals emotionally invested intheBlack Lives Matter riots. Instead of seizingtheopportunities that higher education offers,GenZprotests its way throughthepath of least resistance and highest comfort. Thatistheantithesis of pursuing higher education.
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Grade inflation only givestheillusion of achievement. It hides how little students know and how much of a wastecollegeisforthem.
Ninety-one percent of small business ownersnow believe that higher education does not produce students who are prepared for life after graduation. Employers are ditching four-year degree requirements because higher education no longer aligns withthepreparation young adults need to succeed in society ortheworkforce, where grade inflation and easy-outs do not exist as options.
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Atthesame time that today’s unserious students bully higher educationintoacceptingthem as perfected adults who are contradictorily too fragile for harsh reality,they rack up prohibitive loansthat 56% of all borrowerscannot readily repay. What a waste, not just forthem, but also forthecountry.
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GenZisnot trying to build anything. Rather, itistrying to throw out every opportunity it has been given.
I applaud Morales for speaking up. Higher education needs to empower its professors to hold students to high rigorous standards and prohibit leftist administrators from enabling students to demand better grades and easier courses.
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If American societyisto have a prosperous future, universities need to re-embracethevalues of truth and rigor in education and applythem to grading systems.
Young people inthe1920s who lived in a detached existence afterthemeaningless ravages of World War I were known astheLostGeneration. Now inthewake of COVID-19,GenerationZisprovingitselfto betheWastedGeneration, andtheeffort to do soisindeed a waste.
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Zachary Marschall is editor in chief of the Leadership Institute’s Campus Reform and an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Kentucky.
