The University of Florida picked a president with experience at a neighboring flagship while Northwestern University hired its new leader away from another Big 10 institution.
“Our grading is too compressed and too inflated, as nearly all faculty recognize; it is also too inconsistent, as students have observed,” Dean of Undergraduate Education Amanda Claybaugh wrote in a 2025 report.
Those of us working most closely with students know that persistence does not happen because a resource exists. It happens because a student is ready to engage in it.
