Word: gsd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those minutes (now withdrawn by the embarrassed visiting committee which is still in the process of writing the normal milquetoast pap that passes for governing board oversight) also seem to reflect a consensus on the panel--shared by many GSD faculty and students--that Kilbridge's administration has been a "receivership" and that "Kilbridge cannot provide continued intellectual leadership...
...minutes also touch on educational stagnation within the GSD, which in many ways grows from budget balancing moves that have boosted the ratio of student to faculty from 8.3 to 1 in 1969 to 11.5 to 1 this year. For example, the visiting committee record refers to the panel members' "impression of a pervading boredom and lack of excitement." Similarly, the minutes indicate that "several members" saw a need to find a new dean who can "stimulate the sense of purpose and mission which the committee found lacking in both faculty and students, as well as to attract a higher...
Kilbridge's Business School origins and lack of celebrity status are not per se compelling reasons to question his ability to lead the GSD. But the school has not accepted Kilbridge as its leader for far more substantive reasons: the dean has repeatedly demonstrated an insensitivity to the needs of his students and faculty and a propensity for cunning half-truths...
...that several of the more controversial statements reported in the Times account originated from a late afternoon question-and-answer session Kilbridge held before a different audience. Such action, hardly designed to build a bond of trust, underlines a disturbingly pervasive lack of communication--evident in remarks Kilbridge and GSD students traded in a meeting last week. Similarly, the uproar over the Times story is most significant as an index of the volatility of the policy differences that Kilbridge has shown himself incapable to resolve...
Kilbridge's ability to lead the school is also limited by his repeated disingenuousness. The fall 1975 report of a University panel investigating the GSD's decision not to rehire an out-spoken assistant professor in 1969 admonishes the dean several times for being unhelpful. At one point, this report admits that "many" of the panel's five members have a "lingering doubt" whether Kilbridge was "as candid and forthcoming as he might have been." This side of the dean also emerged in 1972 after the Corporation dismissed grievances against him. Instead of seeking reconciliation with the senior professors...