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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...
...Mansfield last year drew both attention and criticism for his attacks on Harvard’s 51 percent A and A- grade distribution...
Some have questioned why Mansfield inflates the grades for government...
...class, whereas government 97 is a course for the department, and I didn’t want to do for the whole department what is my individual choice for my own course,” Mansfield said...
...Though Mansfield says only 20 percent of grades can be A or A-, both he and Bybee said that does not necessarily mean that there will be 20 percent each...