Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Top college graduates are having more difficulty demonstrating their

Understanding the argument - 
­Top college graduates are having more difficulty demonstrating their superiority to prospective employers than did the top students of twenty years ago when an honors degree was distinction enough. - Background Info. 

Today’s employers are less impressed with the honors degree. Twenty years ago no more than 10 percent of a given class graduated with honors. - Background Info. 

Today, however, because of grade inflation, the honors degree goes to more than 50 percent of a graduating class. - Contrast and reason/cause of the contrast. 

Therefore, to restore confidence in the degrees they award, colleges must take steps to control grade inflation. - Conclusion. This states the minimum or necessary condition "must take steps to control grade inflation" to achieve the goal, which is to "restore confidence in the degrees they award."

Which one of the following is an assumption that, if true, would support the conclusion in the passage?

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