<p>Actually I’m not surprised that most of the grade deflation went away, it just isn’t “competitive” in the modern classroom. I’m a bit more surprised though that from the way you’re depicting it the profs and assistants have softened in their utter hostility and contempt towards undergrads because that’s more cultural. They HAD to have that contempt in order to give out such impossible assignments (an “intro to computing” course with only access to keypunch equipment, if you got lucky you could “turn around” a deck 4 times in a day, and a $25 account limit, and we were expected to WRITE A COMPILER FOR ONE MADE-UP LANGUAGE IN ANOTHER, all original, no code libraries? Wait, it gets worse - this was the version IN A SUMMER MAKE-GOOD COURSE, the in-semester assignment WAS EVEN HARDER?? This a full decade before even the most primitive PCs were introduced, and no sourceforge or even internet. This type of thing was clearly “biased” to benefit the OCS employees who even then had full 3270 terminals with no account limit on their desks as I found out much later.) And THAT’S just an example of the environment in which a lot of us were really STRAINING just to keep our GPA heads above water. Sure, go ahead and deny that this kind of absurd treatment ever happened, I obviously was completely delirious for 5-1/2 years. All I’m saying is that a school that was once capable of such egregious excesses can have a “relapse” at any time!</p>