{"id":85411,"date":"2026-08-12T10:27:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85411"},"modified":"2026-08-12T10:27:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:27:44","slug":"university-of-michigan-pivoting-to-pass-fail-grading-system-to-curb-the-mental-health-crisis-among-college-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/university-of-michigan-pivoting-to-pass-fail-grading-system-to-curb-the-mental-health-crisis-among-college-students\/","title":{"rendered":"University Of Michigan Pivoting To Pass\/Fail Grading System To \u2018Curb The Mental Health Crisis\u2019 Among College Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Guardian:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The University of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/michigan\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Michigan<\/a>\u00a0will pivot to a pass-or-fail-style grading system, instead of letter grades, for first-semester students in an effort to \u201ccurb the mental health crisis unfolding among college-aged individuals\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The school\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lsa.umich.edu\/lsa\/academics\/lsa-first-semester-grade-covering-pilot-program.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">said in a notice<\/a> on Tuesday that its goal was \u201cto help first-year students acclimate to the demands of college and allow intrinsic motivations to guide personally meaningful academic journeys\u201d and foster \u201ca culture of connection and collaboration \u2013 rather than competition\u201d. The move comes after a mental health study across 135 US colleges and universities published last year showed lower rates of depressive and anxiety symptoms and suicidal ideation reported by students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Guardian: The University of\u00a0Michigan\u00a0will pivot to a pass-or-fail-style grading system, instead of letter grades, for first-semester students in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85412,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85411\/revisions\/85412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}