Harvard faculty jettisoned any academic integrity in pandering to student expectations. It is the same motivation that we have seen in the purging of conservatives and libertarians from faculty ranks. They become more sought after teachers and receive higher evaluations. Indeed, they had failed, but Morales says that Undergraduate Studies Dean Desiree Pedescleaux bumped up the students’ grades again without his approval. Grade inflation is only the latest sign of how school administrators have lost control of universities and colleges.