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Cabot Professor of American Literature Lawrence Buell has taken a medical leave of absence and will not teach either of his two scheduled fall undergraduate courses, Literature and Arts A-64, “American Literature and the American Environment,” and Freshman Seminar 39p, “Practice of Autobiography...
...Cabot Professor of American Literature and Languages and former Dean of Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell cautioned that the issue of grade inflation, while important, should never top the list of any serious educator’s priorities...
...Buell suggested that to address the issue of grade inflation, transcripts could reflect how a student performed relative to other undergraduates in the same course...
Cabot Professor of American Literature Lawrence Buell, another former dean of undergraduate education, cautioned that the curricular review would only be able to address the existing academic problems if it is undertaken carefully...
...ongoing curricular review has the potential to address the relevant questions substantively, but only if it is carried out deliberately, unhurriedly, and with maximum participation by both faculty and students,” Buell wrote. “This is not to be taken for granted. Harvard’s pressure cooker atmosphere tends to make administrators, faculty, and students all feel in too much of a hurry about such matters...