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When an audience member asked about Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 and his crusade against what he sees as a rampant inflation problem, Dean for Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen said it is not as much of a problem as the press has made...
...mail from Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis that Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 leaked to the Boston Globe (News, “Lewis-Mansfield Dispute Goes Public,” Oct. 11) confirmed what everyone knows but no one will openly discuss: that grade inflation is primarily an affliction of the humanities...
...long-running disagreement between Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. ’53 and Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 on the subject of grade inflation took a very public turn this weekend, as the Boston Globe published private emails Lewis wrote to Mansfield...
After his controversial campaign last year against grade inflation, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 has taken another step in his longtime effort to change the College’s grading patterns. Mansfield, who co-chairs the Government 97a tutorial—a required course for all sophomore government concentrators—is advising teaching fellows in the course that no more than one fifth of all students should receive a grade of A or A-. We strongly disapprove of Mansfield’s imposition of a grade quota on his captive audience of students...
...Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 should not only be able to carry out his grading policy for the Government 97a tutorial, but he should be commended for his effort to curb rampant grade inflation at the College...