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Strangely, Mansfield seemed to recognize the reasons against punishing students for the sins of their professors last year in his elective course, Government 1061, “Modern Political Thought From Machiavelli to Nietzche,” a course chosen by students rather than required of them. In that class...
Mansfield’s policy is also wholly inappropriate for a tutorial environment, in which close interaction among a small group of students creates an intimate learning experience. By imposing a quota on the number of A and A- grades, this collaborative environment will be shattered: instead of building from...
Yet the grading system at a large university like Harvard will not change in a day, and while Mansfield’s goal may be worthy, his means are shortsighted. Grades are used for more than self-esteem—future employers, graduate school admissions officers and Phi Beta Kappa...
After his controversial campaign last year against grade inflation, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 has taken another step in his longtime effort to change the College’s grading patterns. Mansfield, who co-chairs the Government 97a tutorial—a required course...
Professor Mansfield, who also teaches two political philosophy classes, government 1060 and government 1061, implemented a new grading policy for those classes last year, giving each student a “real” grade, and an “inflated”grade that was sent to the registrar...