"The University of Akron has put its foot down against a professor who planned to raise the grades of female students so they would stay in his field of information sciences.
After The College Fix quoted an email to students from Liping Liu, an administrator told The Fix that the business and management professor’s gender-based approach was “unacceptable” and that no grades have been artificially raised.
Liu admitted to The Fix that his plan could be “questionable,” but said he wanted to “test the water” to see if this approach could “attract female students into future classes” and help correct chronic gender imbalances in his field.
...The professor informed students that he had sent their final grades to the registrar, and that three “categories” of students “may see their grade raised one level or two.”
Females would get grade raises as part of a “national movement to encourage female students to go [in]to information sciences.”
Others who would get an artificial boost: students whose exam scores showed “higher performance than their calculated ones” and students who attended but “missed reporting attendance.”
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