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Another alumnus professor who has been equally miffed, though less publicly than Mansfield, with grade inflation. Linguistics Department Chair Jay H. Jasanoff ’63 said, “almost half of undergraduates today do better than I did my best year.” To him, whether or not current students deserve these grades is not a question: “the same degree of smarts now gets higher grades than it did [when I was an undergrad].” So Jasanoff, like many other department chairs, has been pushing his professors to combat grade inflation...
...Anybody who has ever been at another university knows Harvard’s policy is not up to standard,” said Jay H. Jasanoff, chair of the Department of Linguistics...
...It’s going to be a nuisance,” agreed Jasanoff, who said that as department chair he would be responsible for the planning...
...It’s obviously a trade-off,” Jasanoff said of the new policy. “But you can’t be substandard. People expect Harvard to be at the head of the pack...
...don’t need physical copies of things to make a decision,” Jasanoff said. “Everything that he wrote was considered in the department’s decision based on his record. Nothing was factored...