"Certain departments said 'it's not our problem.' There were several departments that said 'is not some creep up in grades appropriate since students' credentials are improving,'" Buell says.
The CUE found far less consensus on the solution to grade inflation, Feldman says.
In fact, the faculty came to a consensus on only two issues.
First, approximately half the departments supported transcript amplification. Second, most of the departments said something should be done about the gaps between B+ and A- and between C+ and B- in Harvard's grading scale, Buell says.
On the Agenda
The Faculty Council will consider the CUE's report when it is delivered this week.
As Dean Knowles points out, the debate may just be beginning.
"The CUE is not a legislative body, The faculty is the only legislative body. We must think not just about the question of inflation but also the more serious, underlying question of meaning," Knowles says.