Word: verba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Verba will be chairman for four years, but will go on leave for two semesters at some point, Dean Rosovsky said last night. Verba said he accepted Rosovsky's offer of the chairmanship last week, although it has yet to be officially announced...
...Verba said yesterday he would not try to set any type of departmental grading policy. He also indicated yesterday that there would be some changes in the Government tutorial program...
...Verba said yesterday, "It would not be appropriate to use the chairman's power to ask teaching fellows to justify their grades...
...Verba added that because he could not enforce any kind of grading policy or review on senior faculty he does not plan to enforce it on junior faculty members, whom he does have some control over, since this would put students with teaching fellows at a disadvantage...
Mansfield, who said Verba's selection "was very widely approved" by the members of the department, added that under him the Government Department has done all it can do at the department level to stop grade inflation and that now it is up to the University...