Grade Requirements Are Tightened For U. of Virginia Dean's List
The University of Virginia, prompted by the nationwide phenomena of grade inflation, lias tightened the requirement for membership on its DeanÛªs List of Distinguished Students.</br></br>The faculty of the universityÛªs College of Arts and Sciences voted at a regular meeting last week to raise the grade point average for studentsÛª qualifying for the deanÛªs list from 3.0 to 3.4 out of a possible 4,0. The change becomes effective for the fall semester next year.</br></br>Due to easier grading by professors in Charlottesville, as at other universities around the country, more and more students have qualified for the deanÛªs list in recent years.</br></br>Last spring, 55 per cent of the 0,827 undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences qualified for the list. Last January, 65.3 per cent of the 7,029 students in the college were named to the list ÛÏThe list had become fairly meaningless as It was constituted,Û said Dr. Irby B. Cauthen Jr., dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.</br></br>Under the tightened deanÛª* list standards, Cauthen estimated only about 20 per cent to 25 per cent of the students in the college would qualify.