Yale, a once prestigious place of higher learning, is now handing out participation awards. Now to be clear, each student is not getting a little trophy to bring home to their moms and dad for having racked up tens of thousands of dollars in debt for attending Yale.

They are being given A’s instead.

According to an article in the New York Times, nearly 80% of the students attending Yale had an A average, The Blaze reports.

The report, by economics professor Ray Fair, also found that not only is Yale handing out A’s at an alarming rate, the percentage has significantly increased since COVID.

Fair writes that the average grade point average for students has increased from 3.6 out of 4 in 2013-14 to 3.7 today, which works out to a mark of between 90% and 92%.

Now, to be fair, some studies are clearly handing out more participation awards than others.

In the economics department, only 52.3% of students had received an A. By comparison, Public Health and History of Science and Medicine courses were handing them out like Christmas chocolates with over 92% of their students receiving an A.

Not surprisingly, the Arts and Humanities courses is where the bulk of the participation trophies were handed out.

Equally, not surprisingly, business owners are valuing a university degree less and less. According to a poll of business owners conducted in October this year:

• 67% stated that universities are NOT graduating students with skills useful to the modern workforce.
• 42% stated that when it came to hiring, it made no difference if the person had a university degree or not.
• 40% said that having a university degree was actually a strike against any potential job candidates.
• Only 10% of business owners stated that having a university degree improved a person’s chances of being hired.

READ: Most students at Yale received A’s last year, frustrated professors say it’s ‘dishonest to our students’ AND Most employers believe college degrees are a waste of money, poll finds

Of course, I would be remiss if I didn’t provide a link on what former University of Toronto Psychology professor Jordan Peterson thinks about our schools of higher learning. READ: Jordan Peterson: Blame idiotic Marxism for the demented antisemitism oozing out of universities

Meanwhile, at Harvard READ: Embattled Harvard President Claudine Gay Now Under Fire For Alleged Plagiarism