When scholarship eligibility is linked to grades, is grade inflation sure to follow?
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"To be honest, fair, and thorough in grading one need not become a social worker. Do students who work part time or full time get..."
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- -- John Horvath, Jr., Associate professor of English, Tougaloo College (posted 12/7, 2:20 p.m., E.S.T.)
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"Since I have followed the overall grade creep over the last 32 years, I believe that grade escalation is a major problem beginning in primary school and continues throughout..."
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- -- James F. Palmer, Environmental Technology Coordinator Nunez Com.
College (posted 11/17, 11:45 a.m., E.S.T.)
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"In his November 4 Colloquy response Mr. Dean seems to assume that students don't talk with instructors and that they won't advocate for themselves using an ad misericordium. My college students did it during the Vietnam draft and..."
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- -- Samuel Barnett, Director of Admissions, The Harvey School (posted 11/10, 12:20 p.m., E.S.T.)
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"There are three reasons why professors feel pressured to inflate grades to allow a student to keep a scholarship like this: 1.) They believe that a college education can..."
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- -- Toni Levi, College Admissions Consultant (posted 11/7, 2:10 p.m., E.S.T.)
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"I know of no professor who would give a student a grade they didn't deserve. However, I know many professors who will give a student a chance to improve a poor grade by..."
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- -- R. Scott Laurent, Graduate Intern, University of Missouri-Kansas
City (posted 11/6, 11 a.m., E.S.T.)
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"Perhaps David Dean fails to realize that in Georgia we realize that most of our students have HOPE scholarships. The problem for faculty is a repeat of one from the Vietnam era, when..."
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- -- Daniel W. Ross, Acting Chair, Dept. of Language and Literature,
Columbus State University (posted 11/5, 3:30 p.m., E.S.T.)
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"Perhaps the previous poster has never faced a student who, point-blank, states, "I need an A to keep my scholarship," but as a composition instructor, I did... too frequently. As a rule, I found..."
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- -- Denise Bryson, currently unaffiliated (posted 11/4, 3:25 p.m., E.S.T.)
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"How would the faculty know which students required high grades to obtain/maintain scholarships?..."
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- -- David Dean, Case Western Reserve University (posted 11/4, 11:15 a.m., E.S.T.)
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