News
Cornell to Phase Out Dean’s List on Rolling Basis
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The University is phasing out the Dean’s List designations starting for the current first-year class, with the elimination effective for all students by Spring 2026.
Opinion
MEHLER | Standardizing Graduating with Honors
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The issue of unstandardized graduation honors harms thousands of students every May, and this lack of standardization is a byproduct of Cornell’s great mission.
Columns
LORENZEN | Proposed Reforms for Academic Honors Would Benefit Students
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By focusing on a semester as its unit of analysis, students are penalized if their academic requirements align such that they must take several particularly difficult courses in one semester. Sometimes a slight dip in GPA during one semester doesn’t mean anything other than that student took some extra tough classes.