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The Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) doesn't have any professors of mathematics as members. This fact has become painfully obvious in its ongoing and bumbling efforts to smooth out Harvard's grading scale.
The committee opposed transcript reform in part because it would make grading policy public and could increase competition among students.
The Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) is recommending that the current 15-point grading scale be reconfigured to eliminate the numerical gaps at the borders between some different letter grades.
Having this uneven system is just illogical," said Gary J. Feldman, Baird professor of science. He urged the committee to specify whether the gap should be filled by adding a new grade, the A-/B+, or by changing the grading scale.
But undergraduate TFs can gain the respect of their students through sections, office hours and even a thorough and clearly explained grading system. Professors give undergraduate TFs responsibilities as a matter of trust as well as an occasional manifestation of laziness. That trust should be sufficient to satisfy any University...