Word: gsd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years of internal dispute at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) come to a head today when a Corporation committee hears grievances brought by three senior professors there against Maurice D. Kilbridge, dean of the GSD...
...same time, the three professors displayed an obstinance counter to the best scholarly traditions by refusing to recognize, much less synthesize, new directions in planning. The most important new direction--one which became the central point of disagreement at the GSD after 1966--was toward advocacy planning, planning which concentrates on the needs of people and social contingents rather than on land use, zoning and street layout. Their close-minded attitude toward advocacy was best demonstrated by the dismissal of Chester W. Hartman '57, an assistant professor in the Planning Department...
...faculty council ways of "getting rid of" he infringed on academic freedom and slandered three colleagues. By first complimenting Hartman on his work as director of the UFS and then turning on him by supporting the non-renewal of his contract, Kilbridge contributed to a growing distrust at the GSD. And, by arbitrarily circumventing the decision of the School's admissions committee in order to attract one man to chair the Planning Department, Kilbridge undercut every tenet of Harvard's academic tradition...
Admittedly, Kilbridge did not enter the GSD in an enviable position. The School was already in financial trouble and its internal politics were simmering when he arrived in 1969 as acting dean to succeed Jean Luis Sert. He came from the Business School where he was professor of Urban Systems, to try to put the School back together. It is hard to know what mandate he received from President Pusey. It might have included the ouster of Hartman, and the subsequent ouster of Isaacs, Nash and Vigier. But regardless of mandates, Kilbridge displayed, during his first year as dean...
...individual domain of administrators; questions of the bounds to which a dean, say, is restricted when dealing with different sectors of the University. It seems clear that Kilbridge has flaunted the unwritten limitations of a dean's powers. Perhaps Pusey gave him carte blanche to "clean up" the GSD; if so, then Kilbridge accepted the mandate and applied it with a striking lack of tact and reason...