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These are three proposals forwarded last week to the Faculty Council by the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) and contained within the committee's recent report on the subject...
According to CUE Chair and Dean for Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell, it is finally time to put the controversy over grading to rest...
...upper echelons of grades: A (15 points), A- (14 points), B+ (12 points), B (11 points), B- (10 points), etc. Notice the large gap between A- and B+. Some people view this gap as a good thing--it puts a real premium on any A grades. But the CUE has decided to close the gap. Exactly how to do so has become a quagmire of arithmetic, almost geometric, nay, exponential proportions...
...Some CUE members have recommended adding the grade A-/B+ to the scale, giving it a weight of 13 points. This change would allegedly make our grading system "proportional...
Clearly, some CUE members have not considered the intracacies of the grading process. Until the fundamental disparities discussed above are eradicated, no grading system will satisfy the CUE's lofty if misconceived ideals...