Word: pass-fail
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...professional presure on students to get high grades were not bad enough, the Faculty has increased the pressure by inadvertently penalizing students who opt to take courses outside their concentration pass-fail or credit-non-credit. While 10.5 full graded courses are required for graduation, the new honors standards make it unlikely that any one hoping to get departmental honors will utilize pass-fail...
...half the courses outside his departmental requirements, while the magna standards call for at least a B in half the extra-deparmental courses. Thus any course in which a student receives no grade is lumped together with courses he fails--no one hoping to receive honors will take any pass-fail courses...
...Faculty feels that honors degrees have been granted too easily for the past few years, as grade inflation has boosted gradepoint averages. But the pass-fail option was never under attack--at least, not explicitly so. The Faculty should reconsider the honors legislation to make non-graded courses neutral in honors calculations, so that students need not feel pressured to take an irrelevant gut where they once would have taken an interesting course pass-fail...
...Faculty's effort to reduce the number of students graduating with honors is reactionary in more than its effect on pass-fail. Raising the honors standards can only be interpreted as a move against students, who already have a great deal of pressure on them to produce. And the Faculty's vote to accept Professor Heimert's amendment moving the effective dates of the legislation forward a year--without even asking members of the Administrative Board or the Faculty Council why both bodies voted unanimously against it--shows great irresponsibility toward those students already enrolled in the College, many...
...student who foolishly takes five courses for several semesters, with one of them pass-fail, and who then doesn't write a summa thesis, could have the grades for a summa and be ineligible for even...