Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ignoring the rank-in-class issue and focusing on 2-S, the Harvard Faculty deviated from this pattern. It got bogged down in a jurisdictional dispute, and ended by rejecting a proposal that smacked too much of political protest and not enough of academic reform...
...distinction between an academic matter like rank-in-class and a political matter like conduct of the Vietnam war does not make the Columbia manifesto any less a victory for anti-Vietnam war forces. And when a college of Columbia's stature joins the no-rank club, there is a good chance that it may initiate a snowball effect. The argument presented at Harvard, and elsewhere, that faculties should refrain from concerted action, is in no logical way weakened as more schools refuse to release ranks--just because everyone is doing it does not make it right. But the argument...
...Committee on Educational Policy has proposed changes in Harvard's rank list system which would sacrifice a reasonable attitude on grades for well-intentioned but meaningless precision...
...system now in use does not consider pluses or minuses in determining rank list, and the CEP argues that this may unfairly penaize some students. Since a B+ receives no more weight than a B-, a student with three B+'s and one C+ is assigned to Group IV while someone with four B--'s winds up in Group...
...hard to be concerned about this inequity in the grading system because a student's rank really has only minimal importance. In determining admission to Dean's List and such programs as Honors Tutorial a student's rank group is consulted, but most departments are flexible enough to admit students to Tutorial who fall a fraction of a grade short of the required level...