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Harvard's departments won't start formal consideration of whether students can count pass-fail courses for concentration until next week--but there are already indications that Faculty opinion on the question is divided and that the departments may reach different decisions...
...week ago the Committee on Educational Policy approved a plan allowing students to take one of their four courses graded "pass-fail" starting next Fall...
...Committee on Educational Policy, in approving a plan for fourth-course pass-fail last week, did little more than it had done two weeks earlier when it endorsed the general principle. Most of the technical problems surrounding pass-fail's implementation are not confronted by the CEP plan, which leaves matters almost entirely in the hands of the departments and the individual course instructors...
Whether the laissez-faire nature of the CEP proposal will seriously limit the number of students able to use pass-fail, or the number of courses they can use it in, remains unclear. It is certainly possible that fourth-course pass-fail will become a near-universal practice without the CEP or the Faculty specifying that it should be. But it would be a mistake for the Faculty to ratify pass-fail with no idea of its effect...
When the Faculty meets next month, it will take up the CEP pass-fail plan. At that time, it should make sure, either formally or informally, that individual Faculty members are not accepting the pass-fail idea without being prepared to apply it to their own courses...