"Reinstating the C?: Grade Inflation and Other Grading Issues"
Tuesday, November 8
Lynn Steen, Special Assistant to the Provost Mary Cisar, Registrar Jill Dietz, chair, CEPC
(co-sponsors: Registrar, CEPC, ARP)
What do we communicate when we give grades? What do grades mean? This conversation will start by looking at grades at St. Olaf in three contexts: our own history, our programs of study, and peer institutions. It also will include suggestions for approaches to grading and a consideration of the status of the so-called "vanishing C."
