A report recommending the College radically change its numerical grading scale and overhaul its honors system to combat grade inflation was debated in a closed meeting of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) yesterday.

After months of debate and discussion among the Faculty, the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) drafted the report based on the reviews of grading practices that each department had submitted in February.

The recommendations—which include possibly eliminating honors tracks in concentrations and adding statistical information to student transcripts—will likely be discussed by the entire Faculty at a meeting in late May.

Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen ’81-’82 called the proposal a “draft” last night.

“I expect there to be further changes. We wanted the CUE to look at it so that we could gather some views” she wrote in an e-mail.

The recommendations include reducing the current 15-point grading scale to an eight-point scale, with equal numerical differences between each grade. The plan would eliminate C-minus, D-plus and D-minus grades.

This change aims to remove the “skip” between an A-minus and a B-plus, which represent a 14 and a 12, respectively, on the current grading scale.

Since there would be less of a numerical difference between an A-minus and a B-plus, this change would make professors more willing to give students B-range grades, the report argues.

“The bulk of student work should be graded in the B-range,” the report said.

According to the report, eliminating lower range grades would better define each remaining grade “and communicate more effectively with students the shortcomings of their work.”

The report also recommends that the percent of A-range grades earned by all students in a course be included in a student’s transcript alongside the student’s grade in the class.

With this addition, the transcript would “provide greater transparency in our grading practices and allow for others independently to asses the value of a given grade,” according to the report.

Students and Faculty on the CUE declined to comment on the report yesterday.

But in the past, the Faculty has been divided over whether the College has a responsibility to inform potential employers and graduate schools of the relative worth of a Harvard grade.

Pedersen has said in the past that changing information included on transcripts fails to address the sources of grade inflation.