Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...procedures seemed heretical six years ago. Campus radicals in California expanded their teach-ins into the "Free University of Berkeley," where students abolished course requirements and grades and designed their own "relevant" curriculum. Still in business, the Free University has been copied in some 40 other locations. Moreover, the emphasis on students' taking responsibility for their own education is influencing established campuses. Relaxed grade and course requirements are now optional at several hundred institutions, allowing unprecedented flexibility. The question is whether, in the process, higher education is lowering its standards...
...NCAA rejected yesterday by voice vote a proposal to abolish the rule which requires athletes to maintain 1.6 grade points...
...went to work as a song plugger on Tin Pan Alley -then as now a mythical street on the tattered fringe of Broadway. Hired by Sunbeam Music, Diamond sometimes felt like a tailor, sitting in a tiny cubicle and fitting songs to the needs of assorted Grade B singers. "Gloria wants an up-tempo ballad like that Patti Page thing," the boss would say. "And while you're at it, throw in some bongos...
During his short tenure, law students reacted with varying degrees of intensity to controversies over grade reform, the University Hall bust, the disciplining of black law students and the invasion of Cambodia...
...weathered two very harrowing confrontations with Law students on issues of grade reform and disciplinary policy, oversaw a $15 million fund-raising campaign, and held together an increasingly torn faculty...