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After extensive discussion, the faculty capped the overall number of honors at 60 percent, voted to switch grade point averages from a 15- to a four-point scale, and formally committed to enforcing more vigilant grading practices...
...Grade inflation has been the target of administrators at several elite universities...
Feldman added that with the curricular review in full gear, he thought that the issue of grade inflation has become less of a priority...
...Cabot Professor of American Literature and Languages and former Dean of Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell cautioned that the issue of grade inflation, while important, should never top the list of any serious educator’s priorities...
Buell suggested that to address the issue of grade inflation, transcripts could reflect how a student performed relative to other undergraduates in the same course...