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...faculty will add to the pass-fail courses by reclassifying courses from the 200-level to the 300-level, Siever said. The student-faculty committee will help decide which courses will be changed to the 300 level, he added...
Raymond Siever, chairman of the Geology department, promised that the faculty next year will offer at least one new course which the students requested in response to a survey last spring. He also promised that some graduate courses which are now graded will become pass-fail next year, as many students asked in the survey...
...Twelve salaried and accredited teachers offer 85 students courses in black history, Swahili, black literature, black art and drama and community organization. Students spend half their day at Eastern High in the study of math and the sciences, half at the Annex. Though the Annex gives no grades, just pass-fail ratings, the high school gives full credit for Annex classes, and Eastern's Principal William Saunders backs the student-run school enthusiastically. He is particularly impressed by the lack of disciplinary problems. "If all the students at Eastern High School brought me the kind of problems the students...
...proposals discussed many areas of concern to the students. They called for alterations of admissions policy to accommodate the acceptance of unconventionally-qualified students and to allow for greater recruitment of black students. In addition, COWI requested that the administration introduce pass-fail courses and more extensive leaves of absence. The group also suggested that faculty salaries at Wellesley be raised to improve the quality of faculty attracted to the college and to enable the school to compete for the scarce supply of black professors and administrators...
Epps emphasized that changes to or from pass-fail in full courses cannot be made at mid-year...