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...Harvey Mansfield being "insensitive" when he conveniently left out a host of explanations for grade inflation--and decided instead to blame the whole thing on TFs' alleged fears of giving Black students low grades? Probably so--he's always seemed to derive some childish pleasure from pissing off groups he dislikes. Last year, for example, he called Women's Studies a "little ladies' sewing circle...
...hard enough, you can convince yourself that this kind of procrastination actually promotes worthy goals, like enjoying life for the moment (my TFs, of course, might disagree with this logic...
...asked people to select professors and TFs who have inspired them in some ways, who have made learning worthwhile...who have made them go to class," said the council's academics committee Co-Chair Sean M. Becker...
...assess teaching fellows. Such a practice would represent a quick fix of "empowerment" to those students who care or are particularly disgruntled that would, in the end, be diluted by the general apathy and lack of inspiration in the average CUE response. A few particularly lame TFs would go to the woodshed on the third floor of the Science Center and the status quo would remain in place. The plan also makes Dean Buell look good while not creating any more work for his tenured colleagues in terms of their actually doing some of the evaluation of TFs...
...blame them for that? I freely admit (for the second time now) that I am part of this trend to inflate grades. And I reiterate that nothing will change this except increased direct involvement of tenured faculty in the related processes of grading students and evaluating TFs...