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THE MOST DRASTIC attacks are, of course, on student freedom to choose an academic program. The Core Curriculum, rushed through with eleven minutes of debate on the proposal itself, and passed in spite of strong and broad-based student opposition, is the most overwhelming example. One of the greatest gains...
By putting several hundred papers through this process, Hirsch hopes to develop a new method of grading. Says he: "If it takes two minutes to read the good version and 2.3 minutes to read the original student version, that gives you a proportion of 87%, meaning the student's...
Sources contacted yesterday attributed the rise in grade point averages to more liberal grading and an increasingly competitive student body.
Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation said yesterday Faculty tendencies towards more liberal grading "just came about of their own accord," independently of any University policies.
Or because the CUE Guide no longer gives grading statistics and the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility does not have the resources to prevent Harvard from selling its corporate soul to the highest bidder?