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Though the Faculty as a whole is still taking time to digest the findings of the report, compiled by the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), individual Faculty members told The Crimson they are taking the problem very seriously...
...agree with the sentiment that we have gone too far in grade inflation, and I think the EPC and its concerns about where we are on grading are very valid ones,” said Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy Jonathan Grindlay, chair of the astronomy department...
Roughly half of the grades distributed to undergraduates in recent years have been in the A-range, up from about one-third 15 years ago, according to the report, compiled by the Education Policy Committee (EPC) of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Pedersen said the EPC plans to return to this issue in the spring with the hope of formulating recommendations that it will pass along to the Faculty by the end of the academic year...
...EPC has engineered substantial changes in the FAS curriculum. According to Dean of Undergraduate Education and EPC Co-Chair Susan G. Pedersen `82, its conversations with concentrations led 14 of 41, including English, Government, and Biology, to decrease their overall requirements, just as the faculty had voted to recommend during the 1996-97 Core reform. Most recently, it coordinated the near-doubling of freshman seminars over a single academic year that was announced this spring...