Word: pass-fail
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...report that will be sent to all Law School faculty today, the Michelman Committee, a student-faculty group reviewing education at the Law School, recommends that first year students receive only pass-fail grades for their first semester courses...
Members of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) thought they had come up with a worthwhile proposal when they suggested extending the deadline for changing a course from pass-fail to letter-graded status...
...when the idea went before the Faculty Council earlier this year, council members were not so enthusiastic. They decided that the proposal "was integrally tied to a number of related questions about the structure of the curriculum" which should also be examined in conjunction with any change in the pass-fail deadline, Dean Rosovsky wrote earlier this month in a letter to George C. Homans '32, chairman...
Homans, who is currently acting associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education, said this week he thought CUE's original pass-fail proposal was "a sound one" that could have been acted on independently of other academic issues...
...Pass-fail is CUE's area of responsibility, and it lies with us. We can change the date without disturbing everything else," he added...