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The Business School's M. B. A. Faculty managed to consider and approve only one of five reforms proposed by the Joint Committee on M. B. A. Grading Policy during its Thursday meeting.
The Committee's memorandum notes that "a full reconsideration of grading will interfere with studies and efforts toward educational improvements that deserve higher priority," citing changes in written work in the second and third years among other examples.
However, a dissenting opinion drafted by the three student members of the Committee holds that "the present option system satisfies no one," and that "the costs of [reexamining grading] are outweighed by the need to respond to the profound concern of the present first-year class."
"It seemed clear (from a questionnaire on first-year grading) that there is strong support among first-year students for a mandatory pass-fail system. Now we may have to pick up the idea of changing the present system by getting people to elect the pass-fail reporting option in...
The majority report of the Committee accepted by the faculty notes, "Our conclusion that the [grading] matter should not be reopened... is in part due to our conviction-and our sense that the faculty shares that conviction-that the adoption of an unqualified, mandatory pass-fail system is unacceptable on...