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...unanimous decision to suspend judgement on Nagy's plan came after Dean K. Whitla, director of the office of instructional research and evaluation, told the committee that the number of students taking make-up exams has increased throughout the Ivy League, "so we're not in bad shape...
...could get rid of some of the variation between courses it would improve the (grading) process a bit," Whitla added, explaining that professors are informed if their average grades are higher than usual by a positive "course grading index" (CGI) and lower by a negative...
...Whitla declined to identify professors with particularly high or low CGIs...
Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, professor of Government--whom Whitla called "concerned" that the University-wide grade average "hadn't come back to the standards of previous years"--said yesterday the CGI of Government 10, "Introduction to Political Philosophy," which he teaches, "is what you might call minus...
...Inflation is already too great. Honors grades are given out with abandon," Mansfield said, adding he "tried to urge" the Faculty council two years ago to encourage professors to limit the number of high grades they award. This is the second year Whitla has distributed the reports...