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The Faculty Council yesterday discussed grading policies and potential solutions to grade inflation, but did not make any concrete decisions or recommendations.
"I think the outcome of the meeting was that the dean for undergraduate education would be more apt to talk to course heads and departments whose grading practices may be out of line," Baird Professor of Science Gary J. Feldman, a council member, said after the meeting.
The council is facing several issues involving grades--grade inflation, grading disparity and the grade point scale.
January would be an opportune time for those one-page Core response papers we seem to be forever churning out, except that finally we might even have the time, energy and interest to do all of the reading. Grading should be standardized so that Core classes are no longer our...
First, approximately half the departments supported transcript amplification. Second, most of the departments said something should be done about the gaps between B+ and A- and between C+ and B- in Harvard's grading scale, Buell says.