When the administration chose to adopt the plus/minus system it cited the fact that 80 percent of Carnegie research universities use the plus/minus grading. However, PMG isn’t the answer to improving UGA’s reputation. UGA needs to figure out what individual students need and want to increase their academic standing instead of relying on statistical data from other schools.

By implementing plus-minus grading, UGA is penalizing honors students, students trying to get accepted to graduate school and those trying to get other scholarships in addition to the HOPE.

Instead of adopting a system that penalizes hard-working students, the university needs to reprimand the bottom-of-the-barrel students who spend more time bar hopping around downtown Athens instead of going to class.

By giving more funding to research programs and hiring more professors who aren’t there for tenure but to help students learn, UGA will actually be promoting academic rigor.

These things cost money, whereas a plus/minus grading system does not.

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