Word: gsd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That document bluntly challenges the direction of education at the GSD, reporting "a drift away from professional competence," a failure to benefit from inter-departmental or inter-Faculty cooperation, and a need for "major policy changes" if the school is to recapture its once pre-eminent position...
...visiting committee aimed its most powerful shots at the City and Regional Planning Department, which includes about one-third of the 600 students at the GSD...
Oddly enough, the 13-page report to the Overseers that was presented to the University Governing Board last fall offers many of the criticisms contained in the minutes, with one conspicuous exception--absence of an extended discussion of controversial GSD Dean Maurice D. Kilbridge, who was harshly assessed in the minutes as unable to provide "continued intellectual leadership," is missing this time around...
...many ways, the curricular disputes at the GSD--over the role of policy analysis in planning education, for example--are a reflection of educational debates currently going on in the design world...
...GSD's conflicts are exacerbated not only by a history of financial instability and personal conflicts, but also by the unusual background of Kilbridge and the school's planning department chairman, John F. Kain...