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Last night’s meeting had been scheduled simply to set the agenda for a meeting of the council??€™s newly formed university relations subcommittee next week. But councillors quickly clashed over the entire process of dealing with the universities...
Both departments had previously voted unanimously to propose the idea of a merger to Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles. The merger won the Faculty Council??€™s endorsement two weeks ago, and before Friday’s decision it was scheduled for discussion at the full Faculty meeting tomorrow...
Under the Faculty Council??€™s proposal, once students are recommended by their department for honors, they will be judged only on the basis of grade point average against all other undergraduates. Since departments would want as many of their concentrators as possible to receive honors, and since students take approximately half of their courses in their concentration department, departments would have an incentive to inflate their grades. As a result, though this plan was intended to fight grade inflation at the same time as reducing honors, it might actually hamper the College’s efforts to counter...
...addition, the council??€™s proposal would subject an academically diverse student body to arbitrary GPA standards and quotas. Grade point average should be no more than one factor among many in deciding who receives honors; senior theses and equivalent projects should be the most important aspect of a student’s academic career. These projects mark the culmination of an entire undergraduate experience. Success in these initiatives shows the progression of a student’s learning and expertise in a field and therefore, in all but exceptional cases, shows that a student deserves honors regardless...
...grading standards should be instituted in all departments for thesis level work. But all students who successfully write a quality thesis should receive honors, not just those with top GPAs. These students have satisfied the honors requirements for their departments, and they therefore deserve honors diplomas. As the Faculty Council??€™s report says, the Faculty has “historically assumed that honors are something of which all of our students are capable and to which all of them should aspire. We have tended, therefore, to differentiate among students more by the level of honors awarded than...