Word: graded
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...student populations of the 12 undergraduate Houses vary significantly in terms of grade point averages (GPA), ethnicity, sex ratios and participation in athletic activities, a study of the Houses shows...
...impressed by the argument that the pass/fail option would encourage students to select more challenging and intellectually demanding Core courses. In each area of the Core, certain courses will be perceived by a given student as riskier than others. Students who feel obliged to maintain the highest possible grade-point average are tempted to satisfy Core requirements by taking what they perceive to be the safest courses. The pass/fail option would reduce the risk involved in taking a course that treads on unfamiliar ground...
...minimal investment of time and effort, thereby subverting one of the Core's central goals. To meet this objection, one might ask instructors who offer the pass/fail option to students taking the course to meet a Core requirement to describe what a student must do to qualify for a grade of P. Each Core subcommittee (or the Committee itself) could set and enforce its own guidelines. Under this proposal, a grade of P in a Core course taken to fulfill a Core requirement would not mean "D- or better." It would mean whatever the instructor (and the Core Committee) deemed...
Still, the school's laid-back image has lately begun to work against it. Students today are reluctant to confront graduate schools and employers with unconventional college grade transcripts. As a result, enrollment at Santa Cruz began to slip after reaching 6,134 in 1976. Last year U.C. President David Saxon warned that the campus would have to trim its faculty unless enrollment rose significantly by 1983. This year the student body is up to 6,472 but that figure includes 460 students who wanted to go to the University of California at Berkeley and came to U.C.S.C. only...
...pitched in by personally telephoning prospective students and offering to answer questions about the school. This year applications have increased. Many faculty members fear, though, that Santa Cruz's narrative evaluation system is threatened by the enrollment drive. Last year the academic senate came close to authorizing optional grading for students who desired it. Says American Politics Professor Karl Lamb: "If you have both systems, the grade, which is much easier to give, will drive out the evaluations." Adds his faculty colleage John Dizikes: "The narrative evaluation system is part of a cluster of things that help us take...