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The "Two-Dean Structure" would essentially continue the present system where two deans divide responsibility for student issues and academic concerns. The Dean of the College is responsible for issues relating to students' lives at the College, including housing matters and extracurricular programs. The Dean for Undergraduate Education, currently Lawrence...
"Most of the people have been in the sciences," Sun said. The proposed method would ensure appropriate representation for students of the humanities, where grading is more subjective, he said.
"I do have some concerns about the compression of the grading scale," Feldman said. "I don't think that's healthy."
"Ideally, one just gets the faculty to agree on a common grading scheme that's reasonable and stick to it," he said. "So far I don't have a good way of doing that."
He said that even within departments, grading can vary, because upper-division courses with concentrators will probably have a higher average than lower-division courses.