Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many courses as individual professors will allow, but particularly in courses taken for a pass or ungraded credit, the institution of an option where-by students may submit papers and projects JOINTLY for a common grade, with the standards of quality, if not quantity, of work commensurate with the number of student contributors. We want to encourage collaborative academic efforts among students for the excitement and insights they can provide. This curriculum plan is the result of such a collaboration...
...student should also be allowed to change ANY course grade of D or better to a pass after receiving the grade, with restrictions imposed only by concentration and pre-professional requirements. Grades are for the student's benefit alone, and any use he may want to give to his transcript in the future is his own business...
With flexible course loads and a reduced course requirement for the A.B. degree, failing grades will be less onerous and costly in terms of time and money. This change in attitude and atmosphere might allow instructors to heighten their expectations of students' academic commitment and make them less likely to award a passing grade to an undeserving student...
...study found that the overall quality of doctoral programs had improved since the last survey. In the previous study, nearly 70 per cent of the faculties received a score of "adequate-plus." The current report gave that grade to 80 per cent of the graduate faculties...
Since November, long-term interest rates have declined more swiftly than at any time in the last century. Rates on average-grade corporate bonds, for example, have fallen from 9.05% to 7.80%. A smaller drop in mortgage interest rates, which now average 8.45%, has helped builders to increase the annual rate of housing starts by 59% from January to November. The main force behind the housing rebound, however, has been an astonishing rise in federal subsidies and loans. About one-third of the houses and apartments built this year received some federal subsidy, and next year close to half...