• The University of Akron says it will not allow a STEM professor to conduct an "experiment" by artificially boosting the final grades of female students by a "level or two."

• Professor Liping Liu described the grade inflation policy as part of a "national movement to encourage female students to go to information sciences," asserting that his female students might not pass without the boost.

While the initial screenshot was removed by a Reddit admin due to the listed email addresses of recipients, a copy of the email with relevant redactions was provided to Campus Reform by a student in the class.

“I truly think that my professor's efforts are counter intuitive,” the student, who wishes to remain anonymous, told Campus Reform. “There is no need to persuade women to enter a field they are uninterested in just so we can meet a quota to be able to say that men and women are equally represented in Information Science.”

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