Comment Re:Filler / fluff classes should be pass / fail or (Score 1) 264
That doesn't seem at all straight-forward to me. The whole point of a classical liberal education (which is the kind of education that most college students are paying for) is give a student a broad background in addition to an area of specialization. I majored in mathematics as an undergrad, but I wouldn't consider my geology, anthropology, and music classes to be "fluff", and I don't think that an art history major should consider their mathematics classes to be "filler" (where both "fluff" and "filler" seem to imply that the classes are not important).
So, as I suggested above, tracking a student's major GPA vs the general GPA makes sense, but declaring that all non-major classes are unimportant filler and shouldn't matter at all goes a bit too far---if I am looking at candidates for a job opening or trying to decide who is going to get into a graduate program, if I had two candidates that were the same on paper, except one did better in their non-major classes, I would consider that student the better candidate. Those are data that I would want to have.