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Members of other Harvard departments have criticized Vis Stud for ignoring traditional academic standards. In particular, some faculty members charge that grading in Vis Stud is lax, and that the department's instructors lack proper academic credentials.
Gardner said that grading is "probably" lax in studio courses because "there is little objective means for measurement of somebody's ability."
One Faculty member, who asked not to be identified, said last week that low grading standard's in Vis Stud are "understandable."
Among the causes of grade inflation cited by students and faculty members over the past few years are the increased availability of pass-fail fourth-course options, more lenient course grading policies, and, according to Mansfield, "the increased publicizing and patronizing of easy graders."
Whitla, however, says that "nobody wants to legislate grade distributions, really," and instead sees the effective countering of grade inflation as coming "through voluntary faculty adherence to some general established standards of grading."