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...transcript of the panel discussion will be gathered into a book; since 1972 the IOP has published a similar transcript after every presidential election...
...encourage professors who agree with him on grade inflation to adopt a similar approach. Grades are used as a measure not only in individual courses, but also across courses and academic careers. A future graduate school or employer finding a Mansfield-inflicted C-minus on an applicant's transcript will assume that the students' work in the course was uniquely deficient, not that the professor was uniquely honest. A lonely giver of C's, like a voice crying in the wilderness, will hardly end the problem (if there is one) of inflated grades. As a result, professors like Mansfield...
This is true largely because we can longer trust the grades we see on a transcript from a Harvard graduate. A "Harvard A" does not, in fact, mean that the graduate has learned the course material. I am glad, however, that these same graduates feel good about themselves...
...Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 announced that students enrolled in his class, Government 1061: "Modern Political Thought," will receive two separate grades. The first will reflect the grade that Mansfield thinks the student deserved, the second is the one that will actually appear on the student's transcript. Ostensibly, this allows Mansfield to maintain his principled stance against what he describes as "Harvard's system of inflated grades" without penalizing students who elect to take Mansfield's class instead of one with a more generous grading curve...
...should their alarm be shrugged off as routine babble of the smaller denizens of the international ecosystem. Those who live with an elephant have a right to worry when it starts ambling. More to the point, your allies have marked up all your foreign-policy speeches, including the transcript of your 75-minute TV interview before the Inauguration, and they are not amused...