Brown wants class rank back at CU
Berny Morson, Rocky Mountain News
Published August 30, 2006 at midnight
University of Colorado President Hank Brown will ask the Board of Regents to restore class rankings for graduates as a way to combat grade inflation.
That way, Brown told faculty today, employers or others can see how students with similar high grade point averages stack up against each other.
"You get a feeling of whether 3.5 is good or bad," he said.
How to calculate class ranking is still under consideration. For example, the school may want to use separate rankings for the different subject areas.
Only the law school currently issues class rankings.
Brown said none of the administrators he asked can remember when the rest of CU last used class rankings. They were on transcripts when he graduated from the school in 1961, Brown said.
Brown said he was in the upper fifth of his class.
"I'd take that with a grain of salt," he added.
The proposed policy will come up for discussion at the regents meeting next week, but a vote will not occur for many months and after extensive faculty consideration.
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