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...would be somewhat naive to assume that larger departments, with more faculty and students to provide for, could create the same warm environment that characterizes some of the smaller ones. In the English department, for example, chair Lawrence Buell notes that the workplace doesn’t tend to be the site of “very much schmoozing around the water cooler.” With many faculty members travelling frequently or taking sabbatical, the department often has to rely on departmental meetings to bring faculty members together...
...Buell and Thomas both said they were in favor of instituting a policy similar to that employed by Dartmouth College, where two grades are listed beside each course on a student’s transcript—the grade the student earned in the class and the median grade for the class...
...Buell, Harvard’s problem centers around these grading discrepancies rather than the general upward trend of all undergraduate grades...
...Inequality in grading practices strikes me as a more serious problem than grade inflation per se,” Buell said. “Surely problems of fairness ought to loom larger than problems having to do with possible excess of generosity...
...Buell also said that the discussion on combating grade inflation should not obscure the need to address the quality of undergraduate education at Harvard...