Not very dramatic, eh?
Oh really?
Really, yes.
Appreciated your 1997 reference, but you know, it is now 2010 and things have changed.
For all who need some info, here’s a quote from the Princeton website.
“In the spring of 2003, the department chairs made it clear that we were not going to make progress with exhortation. Faculty in one department had no incentive to grade more rigorously if faculty in another department weren’t also grading more rigorously. So the department chairs charged the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing with drafting a University-wide grading policy, which was proposed to and adopted by the faculty in April 2004.
Not very dramatic, eh?