The UOSA Graduate Student Senate is considering hosting an academic forum to address concerns over the watering-down of curriculum.

Senate Academic Affairs Chairwoman Nichole Grooms said she is concerned that OU is cheapening degrees by dumbing-down curriculum so students will be able to pass. She said student leaders must address the issue.

“We are having classes taught by the best in their field, and yet we are telling them that they should teach down to our students,” Grooms said. “If we stay on the present course of asking the best professors to teach down to their students ... our degrees not be worth the same that they are now as they will be 20 years from now.”

Grooms said professors should be encouraged to be tough, and the forum will help address the situation of classes becoming easier.