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...grading scheme has clouded the meaning of each individual letter grade. Accordingly, the most effective way to eliminate this problem is to detail what each grade means. As professors prepare to teach their courses, dutifully designing the syllabus, coursepack readings and problem sets, they should also design a concise rubric delineating the performance expected from students. Professors must explain these expectations at the beginning of each course, so that students will no longer have to guess what their grades signify; they will no longer feel that their work was judged so subjectively—often seemingly arbitrarily?...
...doesn’t mean that all TFs must give the same grades, but it does mean that if one TF is giving higher (or lower) grades than all the rest, their students’ work should be scrutinized to make sure those grades are justified according to the rubric...
...College currently offers several departmental courses that fall within the rubric of ethnic studies, but no formal program has ever existed. Student campaigns for a department or a concentration in the field have occurred sporadically since the 1970s...
...central approaches to the social sciences and to do so in a way that gives students a sense of how those approaches can enhance their understanding of human behavior in the context of contemporary society. Those in search of the so-called "arbitrary" guidelines such as the above rubric would be well served to consult the Core program's website or the book that each student receives in the first year, both of which discuss the educational goals of courses in each of the Core areas...
Reductionism encouraged the fragmentation of knowledge under the rubric "Learn more and more about less and less." And as the drive to subdivide the natural world into smaller and smaller bits brought the development of the kind of tools needed for this enterprise (microscopes, telescopes, thermometers, dividing engines and all the other instrumentation required for measuring the new data), disciplines split into subdisciplines and sub-subdisciplines. As a result, isolated in their intellectual silos, scientists and their technological sidekicks literally "reduced" human knowledge to myriad, mutually incomprehensible pinpoints of niche expertise. No matter how esoteric a matter might be today...