Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debate about grade inflation continued when Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 linked inflated grades to the increased admission of black students in the 1960s in an article in Harvard Magazine...
...Grade inflation coincided with the arrival of large numbers of black students on the Harvard campus; many white professors were unwilling to give C's to black students, so they also wouldn't give C's to white students," Mansfield wrote...
...Although Mansfield's statements were for the most part rejected by scholars and disproved by administrators who said grades rose on average before the increase in black admissions, the reawakening of the debate has led the Faculty to try to reform the College's grading system...
...This seemed to me to be a rank and flagrant example of that. Here was an actual vote of the people being overturned, which made the winners into losers and the losers into winners," Mansfield says. "Partly I also reacted to the problem of finding anyone who would do anything to get gay activists upset. My experience amply showed why people hesitate...
...When Mansfield was subsequently asked to testify in a similar case in Cincinnati he refused. "I wouldn't be in a hurry to do it again," he says. "I didn't want to get identified with the gay rights issue...