editorial author teaches engineering (Score 1)

A lot of the comments I've read seem to be saying the equivalent of "maybe this is happening in those worthless liberal arts, but it's not happening in Engineering (or Computer science or the "hard" sciences)".

But in fact, the author of the Washington Post editorial is a professor of Geology and of Civil and Environmental Engineering (see http://www.env.duke.edu/faculty/bios/rojstaczer.ht ml).

So I would argue that if you accept his argument that grade inflation is occurring, than you have to accept that it's probably happening in all disciplines.