Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reflection, grade inflation or not, I have to change that...
...Professor Bell has offered independent and personal evidence for this conclusion; his arrogance and condescension--e.g. "read this again"--hardly seem to issue from a concern with "intellectual debate." I have read the passages that Professor Bell has assigned (and more, perhaps in the hope of raising my grade?) and here is my response to his points...
...legislation passes as it stands, it will affect more than the two areas the Faculty intended to tighten. The old rules required only a C- grade in two-thirds of the courses completed outside a student's concentration for a cum laude, but the new ones require at least B- in two-thirds of all courses taken outside the field of concentration...
Raising the grade level for honors is not expected to have much impact. Pipkin says that if the proposed standards had been applied to the Class of '74, there would have been only a minimal cutback in the number of cums and magnas awarded. Raising the grade level is only recognition of general grade inflation, he adds...
...last meeting, Pipkin made it obvious that if the Faculty wishes to really reduce honors, it will have to stop grade inflation...