New Student Regent to Push for Revised Grading System

The new Student Regent plans to push for a new grading system beginning this semester. “For several years now we students have tried to have our voices heard, but to no avail. The time has come!” said newly-elected Student Regent Ronald Reagan Gilley.

“Those weak-kneed, lily-livered SGA representatives simply couldn’t get anything done,” he continued. “Now,” he said, “there’s a new sheriff in town.” Gilley said that he would push the SGA to craft a new kind of grading system that more clearly reflects student effort and achievement, while at the same time giving professors the flexibility they need.

The SGA, according to Gilley, will propose that the current system be scrapped in favor of a more complex system that will provide gradations within each grade-letter. For example, according to faux-British-person and SGA rep Skylar Jordan, under the current system a professor can award a “B” to a student regardless of whether they get an 80 or an 89. “I’d like to point out that an 89 is very close to an A, but our current grading system doesn’t allow a professor to recognize that higher grade,” Jordan explained, speaking in a faux-British accent. “Also,” he continued, “someone who gets an 89 and an 80 get the same grade right now. That’s bollocks.”

While the Gilley currently does not have a solution to the problem, there is broad agreement that something needs to be done. “If only there were some way to mark off the difference between, say, a high-B and a low-B; a high-C and a low-C, this would be much more fair to students,” Gilley mused. “Perhaps if grades could be subdivided into thirds,” he said, her voice trailing off into a thoughtful whisper, “we might have something there.”