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Over the last ten years, a wave of grade inflation has hit Harvard. It is difficult these days to end up with a grade lower than a B minus in most social science and humanities courses. But as the grading of course work gets easier, the granting of departmental honors...
(d) No one but you has said that the board changed its standards for grading, which you could not know. In fact it did not change its standards, "abruptly" or at all.
THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT'S announcement Sunday that an unprecedented number of its students don't deserve degrees might suggest that the quality of the Department's teaching has fallen off badly. But the falling-off was probably in the Department's fairness, perhaps because the junior faculty on the examining...
The two-page questionnaire asks students to give their opinion on various aspects of a course, including lectures, sections, labs, reading lists and grading. It rates each aspect on a one-to-fie scale.
"The members of Phi Beta Kappa," Jewett said, "are clearly knowledgeable of the quality and grading of the courses on a student's transcript."