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Issue date: 9/7/06 Section: News
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CU to fight grade inflation
University of Colorado president Hank Brown said he wants to tackle grade inflation.
"The grades no longer reveal how you really did," Brown said after a convocation speech on the Boulder campus.
Brown said he will propose to regents that they change students' transcripts to disclose class rank or the average grade in the class, which would help potential employers or graduate admissions committees.
In a preliminary review, Brown found less grade inflation at CU than at other universities around the country. Still, there has been some grade inflation at the university in the last 15 years, he said.
Brown said high school grades have gone up dramatically in the last two decades, despite little change in scores on standardized tests such as the ACT and SAT.
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Drug Prevention Promises
A panel assembled by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform agreed unanimously on final reccomendations to decrease steroid use among professional, collegiate and youth athletes.
The panel, which included representatives from the NCAA and experts in the field of health and sterioid use among athletes, suggested that reports of drug use among college athletes has been on the decline in recent years, although statistics suggest that other types of drug use by atheletes appear to be increasing.
Panelists say that the NCAA needs to be more transparent about its drug testing limitations including addressing the "gaping loopholes for growth hormones and other known substances."
According to the "Zero Tolerance Roundtable" panel, 90 percent of Div. I colleges conduct their own drug tests on campus. The National Football League Players Association promised to continue meetings with college athletes, coaches and NCAA administration to explain the league's substance abuse policy.
The panel was created in March 2005 in response to steriod use in Major League Baseball.
University of Colorado president Hank Brown said he wants to tackle grade inflation.
"The grades no longer reveal how you really did," Brown said after a convocation speech on the Boulder campus.
Brown said he will propose to regents that they change students' transcripts to disclose class rank or the average grade in the class, which would help potential employers or graduate admissions committees.
In a preliminary review, Brown found less grade inflation at CU than at other universities around the country. Still, there has been some grade inflation at the university in the last 15 years, he said.
Brown said high school grades have gone up dramatically in the last two decades, despite little change in scores on standardized tests such as the ACT and SAT.
-Academic Impressions
Drug Prevention Promises
A panel assembled by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform agreed unanimously on final reccomendations to decrease steroid use among professional, collegiate and youth athletes.
The panel, which included representatives from the NCAA and experts in the field of health and sterioid use among athletes, suggested that reports of drug use among college athletes has been on the decline in recent years, although statistics suggest that other types of drug use by atheletes appear to be increasing.
Panelists say that the NCAA needs to be more transparent about its drug testing limitations including addressing the "gaping loopholes for growth hormones and other known substances."
According to the "Zero Tolerance Roundtable" panel, 90 percent of Div. I colleges conduct their own drug tests on campus. The National Football League Players Association promised to continue meetings with college athletes, coaches and NCAA administration to explain the league's substance abuse policy.
The panel was created in March 2005 in response to steriod use in Major League Baseball.
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