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Also yesterday the CUE discussed eliminating cum laude degrees awarded solely based on grade point average—which would mean students could earn honors only through their departments. For most departments, such honors are available only to students who write a thesis...
Pedersen said the cum laude in general studies degree is a “default category of honors” left over from the beginning of the 1900s, when students were not required to concentrate in a particular field. She noted that making honors contingent on department work emphasizes the importance of concentrations...
Today’s meeting will also focus on the possible elimination of the cum laude in general studies—an honor earned by just over a quarter of the Class...
Hauser said he was also not aware of any dissent in the Faculty regarding Pedersen’s proposal to eliminate the level of cum laude degrees not based on performance within a concentration—although the measure is still in the preliminary stages...
...graduated from the College summa cum laude in Classics in 1957 having received a half-dozen prizes in Greek and Latin and having been inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa society. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard four years later...