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Faculty hesitation about this proposal in May and perhaps again in October may signify a kind of backlash: a sense, intensified by the amnesties of May, that curriculum may be disintegrating under the impact of Independent Study, Pass-Fail options, and generally softer or inflated grading. These faculty misgivings are...
"Discrimination in the form of compensatory grading, special readmission policies, and lessening of academic requirements for graduation were most often criticized," the report says.
The Business School's MBA Faculty sent back to committee last Friday a radical grading-reform proposal which would have reduced the number of grading categories from the present 15 to only three.
The grading-reform idea was drafted during the summer by the Business School's most powerful committee, the Policy and Operating Committee (POC). The proposal is once again on the POC's desk and will probably resurface next Spring.
Charles J. Christenson, chairman of the POC, defended the proposed grading reform. He said a grading system should be used only to decide who gets a degree, and not for the purposes of feedback and motivation.