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Both these proposals and the two other academic issues will be discussed by the CUE committee today, but the committee —composed of five students, five faculty members, Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen ’81-’82 and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz—is not likely to take a formal vote...
...explaining the proposal, Pedersen pointed to the difference in honors awarded within a concentration and the broader honors degree that is based only on a student’s grade point average...
...seems odd to award honors to students who have not earned honors in their concentrations, given that work in the concentration is the most important component of undergraduates’ work here,” Pedersen wrote in an e-mail...
Dean for Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen ’81-’82 explained that the Faculty Council had chosen to use this wording in order to leave “wiggle room” for exceptional cases...
...part of the review, Pedersen and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz will contact “those concentrations that have recommended more than 10 percent of their graduating seniors over the past five years for highest honors to remind them that highest honors recommendations are meant to reward superlative work,” according to a letter to the Faculty circulated at yesterday’s meeting...