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Smiling and nodding and handshaking them out the door, then turning to roommates with dread or accusations; and outside in the hall, the committees rating personalities on a grading system from one to seven (except for Ivy, the top, which needs only a plus or minus)--one even reporting the...
NEW HAVEN, CONN.--The Yale College faculty last week voted to change its grading system by adding pluses and minuses to the current letter-graded system.
About 60 per cent of the faculty voted in favor of adding three grades--A minus, B plus, and B minus--to the grading system, in an attempt to check grade inflation.
Robert E. Apfel, chairman of the student-faculty Teaching and Learning Committee, said this week that a poll of faculty members showed that 80 per cent of the faculty was in favor of "a greater degree of structure in the grading system." Some faculty members, and A. Bartlett Giamatti, president...
The professors agreed that the ideal discussion is an unrealizable utopia because it presupposes equality among the students, which does not exist and implies equal status of teacher and student, which is impossible if the teacher is grading the class.