Word: grades
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...laude degrees awarded. With a dramatic increase in the number of students receiving summa designation last year, there is fear among some in the faculty that the jump is the result of something other than a marked upswing in the intelligence of the Harvard student body. Instead, the grade inflation phenomenon, the creeping of grades towards the high end of the range, has been blamed widely. Even as we acknowledge the negative effects of grade inflation, we hope the Council will not act hastily and that whatever changes it proposes to the Faculty do not have the effect of taking...
...number of highest honors degrees--awarded on the basis of grade-point average, thesis quality and departmental recommendation--rose to 115 last June, nearly 50 percent more than there were in the Class of 1995. And according to Professor of Chinese History Peter K. Bol, a member of the Faculty Council, the number will continue to rise. "It seems not to be a one-year blip," he explained. "There's evidence based on juniors that this is going to continue." Some in the Faculty believe that rising GPAs, spurred by grade inflation, are responsible for the recent increase...
...mother, like almost every other mother alive today, still remembers exactly where she was when she heard. She was in her tenth grade math class on Nov. 22, 1963 when a voice over the loud-speaker announced that President John F. Kennedy '40 had been assassinated. Her teacher, who at the beginning of the term had joked that the class would be spared homework "only if the President were shot," assigned homework nonetheless...
...question now is, do we raise the numerical [grade cut-off] level, or do we let things be, or do we go to a system that involves greater discretion and examination of individual cases?" said Professor of Chinese History Peter K. Bol, who sits on the council...
Some Faculty members link the increase in the number of summas to a general trend toward grade inflation, which boosts GPAs without signifying greater undergraduate achievement...