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Gould says he and Lewontin would prefer to give the course entirely pass-fail. It would eliminate competition, he says, and allow students to study the material out of interest rather than a desire for a good grade. But since a pass-fail course could not be offered under the Gen Ed rubric, and because the University does not offer lecture courses on a strict pass-fail basis, Gould and Lewontin chose to assure students they had no need to worry about the minimum grade level...
...Grade inflation" is a fashionable topic of academic conversation these days. The term means different things to different people. To some professors it symbolizes a general tendency toward permissiveness and lax standards throughout the university. Others use the phrase to attack ungraded courses and the pass-fail system. But most teachers agitated over "grade inflation" are troubled that too many undergraduate students are receiving high grades in their courses. If good grades are easy to achieve, they feel, students will work little and learn less. As a result, the value of an undergraduate degree, even from an institution like Harvard...
Since courses taken pass-fail do not count toward Gen Ed requirements, the committee decided to allow Nat Sci 36 to count only toward distribution requirements...
Francis M. Pipkin, associate dean of the Faculty for the Colleges and chairman of the ad hoc Committee on Honors, said yesterday the committee found the rules passed this semester--which go into effect in 1977--inadequate because they do not consider pass-fail courses neutral in honors calculations...
...Instead, pass-fail grades are calculated as failing grades under the legislation as it now stands...