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Pedersen will pass along the departmental reviews she receives Friday to the Educational Policy Committee (EPC), which she said hopes to bring an official proposal for reform to vote before the faculty this spring...
Last week the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) interrupted the tranquility of fair Harvard when it released a carefully constructed report on that scourge of modern higher education, grade inflation. To my utter shock and disappointment, the statistics officially confirmed the truth of Harvey C. Mansfield’s longstanding accusation that Harvard grades are inflated...
...EPC document reported that grades in the humanities tend to be much higher than those in the natural and social sciences...
...EPC report also found a significant difference between the grade distribution of small courses and that of large courses—whereas roughly 40 percent of students in students in large courses received A-range grades last year, about 60 percent of students in small courses received equivalent grades...
...EPC report recognized that grade inflation at Harvard is a “serious problem.” Now the Faculty must decide how this problem will be addressed...