Senators knowing of department members who might like to participate should contact Dean Ghali. Provost De Lorme noted the faculty s concern about the operating monies available to fund academic unit support. This will hopefully reduce some of the pressures experienced by both faculty and staff. It was moved by Warner, seconded by Sleeman, and passed unanimously, to endorse the Legislative Agenda and theme of Academic Quality through Shared Governance for 1997-98. Faculty Forum on Grade Inflation and Academic Quality Nov. 24 Decide upon specific new policies or explicitly endorse the status quo .
Faculty feel that in assigning grades, they are answering to values other than academic values.
This kind of pressure impacts academic quality. He presented an overhead displaying Fall Quarter Grades from 1981 to 1996. Provost De Lorme noted the impact of incoming students and of their higher expectations as a factor in grade inflation. Hearne noted that there seems to be grade inflation in high schools all over the country, however incoming students with higher grades do seem to have higher SAT scores. Senator Warner noted that some of the pressure felt by faculty is based on the perception that if faculty want good student evaluations, they need to give good grades.