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Members of the Faculty Council—a committee of 18 faculty members who preview legislation before it goes before the full Faculty—said they had agreed last week on the proposal to change the grading scale.
A proposal to switch from a 15 to a 4.0 grading scale and drastically reduce the number of students who receive honors is likely to go to a vote before the Faculty by the end of the month.
The EPC recommended that the grading scale be changed from 15 to eight points in order to eliminate the numerical gap between a B-plus and an A-minus and thus make professors feel less pressure to give A-range grades.
And what unfortunate gov. jock can forget that last year, in an attempt to ensure that most students earned Bs, “C-minus” bound his government sophomore tutorial to an adjusted grading scale. What déja vu then when this year, in an attempt to...
“When you have spent hours grading a paper and students throw it into the trash, you think you would have been better off going to the movies,” she said.