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To address concerns about the severity and vagueness of the Administrative Board’s policies, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to expand the College’s sanctions for academic dishonesty violations and to clarify policies regarding student collaboration.
In its first experimental year, The Lab has extended across the academic fields of the University.
But in the past academic year, only a quarter of all courses offered by the College gave full-length exams, reflecting a recent trend away from that style of examination.
But some professors expressed concern at yesterday’s meeting that the trend toward fewer exams on campus may lead to alternate forms of assessment that are less effective at differentiating academic performance among students.
Gopinath’s current work looks at data that was previously kept from the public domain, reviewing detailed numbers that calculate aggregate price indices—the first type of academic research in this area, according to Gopinath.