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Gross wrote in a cover letter to Faculty that the slight rise in the mean grade in undergraduate courses indicates “that grade compression continues to be a concern...
Gross used the same wording in his January 2006 cover letter to Faculty on the same issue, writing that both the rise in the mean grade and grade compression are are concerns “best addressed through ongoing discussion at the departmental level...
...grade data provided by Gross does not provide a grade breakdown by department...
...relatively recent change to calculating grade point averages on a 4.0 scale has “reaffirmed the value of B range grades,” according to Gross’ most recent letter. The College went from a 15-point grading scale to its current 4.0 scale following a 2002 Faculty vote after a media flurry targeting Harvard’s grade inflation...
Harvard came under fire for its grade inflation after a 2001 Boston Globe article reported that 91 percent of graduating students received honors. The Faculty voted to cap the overall number of honors given at 60 percent at the same time that they changed the GPA to a four-point scale...