Word: kenan
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Since neither increasing student aptitude nor smaller classes appear to explain the stunning rise in grades, faculty members have turned to other explanations. Early last year, many at the College were angered when Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. ’53 publicly reasserted his racial theory of grade inflation. Mansfield argued that in the late 1960s and early 1970s, “white professors stopped giving low or average grades to black students and, to justify or conceal it, stopped giving those grades to white students as well.” But in a Crimson...
...failed to stay on board. Three times in his deanship, he appointed trusted professors in unrelated fields to take over departments he believed were troubled—he deployed Professor of Music Christoph J. Wolff to oversee Linguistics in 1993 and Sanskrit in 1995, and just last year named Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber to take over Visual and Environmental Studies after removing the prior chair, Ellen Phelan, when she refused to resign...
...quality of students has not noticeably improved over the last 15 years, have grades risen so much? We believe much of the blame falls, as Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 wrote in an e-mail to Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. ’53, on a “collapse of critical judgment” in evaluating undergraduate coursework. Harvard’s standards have atrophied to the point where mediocre work receives a B, and merely solid work receives an A-minus...
...Matt Perone had a really good weekend,” co-captain Kenan Stern said. “He had solid slalom and giant slalom runs...
...authors deny, however, that increasing numbers of minority students attending college has contributed to the rise of average grades, an argument that has been made by Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield...