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"Although (ALI) favors affirmative action for Blacks in admissions, he opposes affirmative action in grading," Mansfield wrote. "Sad to say, when Black students first arrived at Harvard in the late '60s, many white teaching fellows and professors were unable to make this distinction. They passed easily from one kind of...
Mansfield added that it would be difficult to determine the role each factor played in pushing up grades, saying professors may have deliberately obscured the influence of affirmative action in their grading.
"If I am right, professors over-graded all students to justify, and obscure, their over grading of Blacks," Mansfield wrote. He Called on Harvard administrators to release information about the admissions and relative performance of Black students so that a detailed analysis of grade inflation can be conducted.
Other concerns voiced by the vandals include the lack of minority women on the faculty, the arbitrariness of examination grading, and the Law School's emphasis on preparing its students for the corporate world rather than for public interest work.
The Crimson's reporting on grade inflation, taken as a whole, was reasonably comprehensive. We explored the differences between grading in the sciences and the humanities. We quoted various teachers attributing grade inflation to "relativism," professorial laziness and increased competition for jobs and graduate school. Others said students get the...