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...reports--which break down each course's enrollment by sex, year of graduation, and concentration--"invite professors to be as equitable as possible" by showing them whether they differ significantly from University-wide norms, Dean K. Whitla, director of the office, said yesterday...
Letters accompanying the reports do not urge professors who award higher grades to toughen their standards, Whitla said, adding that the Faculty Council--which urges him to disseminate the information--"wanted simply to provide information, not to give advice." He said that "It's an individual faculty member's own responsibility to determine his own grading policies...
Undergraduate grades have not risen in the last six years, and have dropped slightly in the past two, the letters state. The average undergraduate grade currently hovers between B and B-plus, Whitla said...
...letters note that 16.3 per cent of undergraduate grades are A's and 20.9 per cent are A-minuses. But, Whitla noted, some courses give significantly more or fewer high grades than the University-wide average...
...Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation and coordinator of the study, said recently the report does not give names of the Houses because "the real intellectual issue is: "Are the differences among the Houses greater than we should have in this community...