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Students: If you were scared away from Government 1061: "The History of Modern Political Philosophy" by the despotic grading of Kenan Professor of Government Harvey "C-minus" Mansfield, you may want to reconsider. This semester Mansfield just may give you a C-plus...
...public assessments of students, and we encourage professors who agree with him on grade inflation to adopt a similar approach. Grades are used as a measure not only in individual courses, but also across courses and academic careers. A future graduate school or employer finding a Mansfield-inflicted C-minus on an applicant's transcript will assume that the students' work in the course was uniquely deficient, not that the professor was uniquely honest. A lonely giver of C's, like a voice crying in the wilderness, will hardly end the problem (if there is one) of inflated grades...
...read with some amusement the recent article regarding Kenan Professor of Government Harvey "C-Minus" Mansfield '53 and the issue of inflated grades (News, "Mansfield To Give Two Grades...
Would a C-minus by any other name still smell as rank...
Mansfield's reputation as a tough grader has earned him the nickname "C-Minus Mansfield." And he said this semester's grading experiment will let him evaluate students rigorously and accurately, but not unfairly lower students' grade point averages...