May 20, 2026
Faculty voted by a wide margin to limit the total number of A’s in undergraduate classes, as part of a broader effort to rein in grade inflation and recenter academics at Harvard College — with proponents hailing the adoption as a principled collective effort to restore meaning to grades and address a complex issue in higher education.
Nearly 70 percent of voting faculty approved the grading cap — which would limit “A” grades to 20 percent of the undergraduates in any course plus an additional four students, with no limit on A-minuses
https://current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/faculty-decisively-approve-grading-changes