Word: ackermans
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...time that Carpenter Center was to become an "adult nursery school" with lots of courses in "finger-painting" were appeased. Emotional release would not be tolerated. And realism was effectively nixed due to the influence of the Bauhaus. "Everything was to be scientific, nothing emotional," recalls James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts and a member of the CPVA. Harvard would teach a language of vision, nothing more. According to Sekler, "In 1960 it seemed the most valid way of going about...
Perhaps the opportunity for reform ultimately rests on the hiring and firing of Faculty. Ackerman, who was appointed last Spring as chairman of the committee on the status of the arts at Harvard, believes that VES faculty appointments, except for tenured administrators, should be limited to two or three years to ensure a turn-over within the department. Currently appointments can run for as long as seven or eight years...
Signatories of the letter included James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, William E. Alfred, professor of English, Elliot Forbes '40, Peabody Professor of Music; William Paul, McKay Professor of Applied Physics; Roger R.D. Revelle, Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy; and David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences...
...There's a lot of misunderstanding about hiring, and the commission should clear it up," Ackerman said. "We're not rejecting URPE's complaint by investigating all hiring rather than only the Economics Department. We're on the same track as they...
URPE submitted its complaint in response to a request by Ackerman for more information on an earlier complaint--signed by URPE, SDS and the New American Movement--charging "substantial political biases" in Faculty hiring and in the University's treatment of the Afro-American Studies Department...