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Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen ’81-’82 will step down at the end of the academic year, after a two-year tenure that saw a markedly increased role for her office within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...curriculum. We believed that the certificate would encourage more students to take ethnic studies courses and more Faculty to offer them. A small victory was thought to have been achieved in spring 2001 when the certificate was approved by both the CES and Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen ’81-’82, but unfortunately, the new chair of the CES—Werner Sollors, who is also a professor of Afro-American studies—decided to review the certificate proposal again this year. As with most proposals stuck in committee, no progress...
...Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen ’81-’82, who presented the proposal to the Faculty Council yesterday, said the reduction in requirements is not meant to be a panacea for all of the Core’s ills...
...This proposal is intended to make the curriculum more flexible for our current undergraduates,” Pedersen said. “It is not intended to be some final settlement...
Ultimately, Pedersen says she feels the most likely results of the ongoing conversation on grade inflation will be to better define what each grade means—allowing students to better understand the quality of their work...