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In response, the faculty discussed the issue extensively and decided to cap the overall number of honors at 60 percent, while encouraging professors to be vigilant about their grading practices.
Feldman says he has been concerned about the issue for several years. He addressed the Faculty in the spring of 2002 when the grading scale was switched.
Some grading trends have remained unchanged over the past few years. Of the three major College divisions, humanities students trumped their counterparts in the social sciences and natural sciences, posting an average GPA of 13.05 on the old 15-point grading scale, compared with averages of 12.52 and 12.33, respectively...
The differences in grading between the divisions are often quite marked. For instance, while combined A-range grades rose in both the humanities and social sciences during 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 school years, that total actually continued to drop in the natural sciences. This means the humanities and social...
Both Feldman and Cabot Professor of American Literature Lawrence Buell said that the problem is not that humanities professors are more lenient; they instead cited the differences between qualitative or quantitative grading and class structures across the divisions.