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College newspaper columns of the time were filled with complaints that grading resulted in such academic horrors as "an authoritarian relationship between teacher and student" and "an undesirable reward structure" that "corrupts the educational process."
In their pell-mell and sometimes unseemly rush to ensure harmony on campus, many college administrators agreed to institute some form of pass/fail grading. By 1971 an estimated three-quarters of the nation's colleges and universities were offering alternatives to traditional marking systems. Eager to ride the professional...
More Conservative. Many undergraduates are as disenchanted as their professors. At the University of Southern California, for example, only 60% of the undergraduate students take advantage of their option to be marked on a pass/fail basis. "We have students who are more conservative now," explains Boston University's Dean...
The lower wage increases among University employees are a result of the job-grading system at Harvard which establishes guidelines for maximum salaries, a Harvard administrative assistant said yesterday.
The responsibility for grading independent work projects will shift from senior tutors to Faculty advisers next year as a result of legislation approved by the Faculty Tuesday.