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Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen announced that academic departments will have until January to internally evaluate and discuss their grading policies. The Educational Policy Committee, which discusssed grade inflation last spring, will revive the discussion again this spring, and is currently sending data for evaluations to individual departments...
...Grade inflation is a somewhat serious problem....[It] compromises our ability...to motivate students to do their best work,” Pedersen said...
...need to think more seriously about how we use graduate students as teachers,” Pedersen said...
When an audience member asked about Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 and his crusade against what he sees as a rampant inflation problem, Dean for Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen said it is not as much of a problem as the press has made...
After a strong push by Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen ’81-’82, the Freshman Seminar program now offers more than 60 courses—a near-doubling of offerings over the past year. We applaud the Faculty for restoring the program to the heights it achieved in the 1980s and for providing an impressive number of new intellectual outlets for first-years...