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...College-wide level, the Education Policy Committee (EPC)—a group comprised of Faculty from the social sciences, natural sciences and humanities—should be strengthened so it can continuously monitor departments to ensure that College-wide standards are enforced clearly and uniformly. This interdepartmental body should make recommendations about grading policies to the departments. Its recommendations, as well as department-wide and course-specific grading information, should be made public. This will force departments and professors to adhere to high standards and to justify their grades. To accomplish this goal, of course, the EPC must...
...order to make this year’s effort more productive, Pedersen established a subcommittee of the EPC to focus on grade inflation. This subcommittee will review the reports submitted by the departments and report back to the entire committee...
...EPC then hopes to bring a recommendation for grading reform to a vote before the full Faculty by the end of the academic year...
Such a lack of agreement among Faculty was the problem five years ago when the issue of grade inflation last came before the Education Policy Committee (EPC). The committee advises the dean of the Faculty and the dean of undergraduate education on curricular matters...
...tomorrow, all of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ departments must report on their grading practices to the Educational Policy Committee (EPC)—the body that advises the Faculty on most curricular matters...