rigor

So a new analysis by its joint faculty-administration committee of its student preparation may reflect a broader decline in academic rigor and standards.

Toner-Rodgers’s illusory success seems in part thanks to the dynamics he has now upset: an academic culture at MIT where high levels of trust, integrity and rigor are all—for better or worse—assumed.

One might also point to American consumers, who haven’t moderated their beef buying enough to subject the commodity to the rigors of supply-and-demand economics.

The report includes recommendations to curb grade inflation and restore rigor.

For a think tank that once defined conservative policy rigor, the current turmoil underscores a stark choice: return to substantive policy work or fully embrace culture-war theatrics.