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Discuss “Presidential Perspectives”

Hey Tartans. First of all, Happy Thanksgiving!

While everything is rolling smoothly in areas like elections reform, institutional memory, and everything else I’ve spent the past several months writing about, today I spend my Presidential Perspectives discussing a significant disconnect that exists on our campus. That disconnect is between the students and our faculty.

I had the fortune of attending this month’s Faculty Senate meeting, where part of the discussion revolved around creating a shadow grade system that would not reflect itself in our actual marks but would give the faculty a better picture of whether or not instituting a +/- grading system (e.g. A-, A, A+ grading vs. A, B, C) would be appropriate. Professors would be asked...

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