Word: 1960s
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...January/February issue of Harvard Magazine, Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 suggested they might have been. Mansfield linked grade inflation to the arrival of larger numbers of Black students in the 1960s...
Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 sparked campus controversy this semester with comments linking grade inflation to increased Black enrollment in the 1960s and '70s. But students, professors and administrators of that time say they disagree with him and offer their own theories. Some blame the Vietnam War; others talk about a cultural change in attitudes toward grades. But with both sides unable to present statistical evidence, anecdotes and observations dominate...
Even the man credited with coining the term "grade inflation," Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman '34, said the trend was the result of the "counterculture of the 1960s" and predated increased Black enrollment in the College...
College officials said this week the number of Black students increased slightly during most of the 1960s, reaching 55 in 1968. The next year, after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and a strong minority recruitment effort, Black enrollment began to increase at a much faster pace...
Over the past few months, Mansfield has linked grade inflation to the increased enrollment of Black students in the 1960s and '70s. He told Harvard Magazine that inflation occurred because "many white professors were unwilling to give C's to Black students, so they also wouldn't give C's to white students...