Word: gsd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Graduate School of Design (GSD) has no plans to disband the Urban Field Service (UFS) or to replace Chester Hartman, assistant professor of City Planning, as its head...
Maurice Kilbridge, dean of the GSD, told Hartman last week...
Hartman, the creator and director of the Urban Field Service (UFS), has been a controversial figure at the GSD. In originating UFS, Hartman faced departmental opposition to the granting of credit to a program that deals strictly with gaining actual field experience. Hartman set up the project so that studentswould be able to apply their classroom skills to some community group that would otherwise receive no such assistance...
Similar programs have been developed at Yale. Berkeley and M. I. T. in an attempt to reduce the gap between academic studies and on-the-job realities. The Harvard program not only involves GSD students but individuals from the Law and Business Schools...
...however, has received little financial backing during the two years of its existence, and the loss of Hartman would more than likely spell the end of the program. Peter Volimer, a GSD student. said yesterday that he thought "the faculty liked the image the program projects. But some members feel polities are too much a part of the program." he added...