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Marquand Professor of English and chair of the English department Lawrence Buell said he was shocked to learn that more than half of the grades given in the humanities are within the A range...
...Although grades in humanities courses have always, in general, been higher than in the other two divisions, I was surprised that the level of A/A- grades is now at 50 percent,” Buell wrote in an e-mail...
According to Buell, the close relationships formed between students and Faculty in small class settings can make objective grading more difficult...
...closer faculty-student working relation to which a small course conduces can result in professors judging students more on best performance or on promise relative to overall performance,” Buell said...
...Buell and other Faculty members argue that higher grades in small courses may also result from other factors than grade inflation...