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After all efforts to find a new backer failed, the GSD picked up the Field Service's expanses. Since 1970, the UFS has been funded solely by the Design School's unrestricted income. The limited money has forced a cutback in outside supervisors and projects. Last year, Seferi accepted only six projects, and directed five of them by her. The sixth was handled by a non-salaried outside architect...
...more than financial problems. In late 1969, Kilbridge, who had been named acting dean in July, announced that the GSD had decided not to renew Hartman's contract as an assistant professor. Hartman immediately appealed, charging that he was dropped from the faculty for personal and political reason...
Hartman's appeal touched off a controversy that has sent ripples of discontent surging through the GSD. His case is still unresolved--Hartman and the School have been unable to agree on the composition of the appeal board...
...former director has always contended that the political nature of the UFS and its work with radical community groups angered the traditional architects at the GSD. He claims that most professor fear the UFS because it attracts politically active students. In the September 1971 issue of Architectural Forum. Hartman wrote; "Put bluntly, there will be substantial opposition to UFS-type work from a large and substantial number of faculty members who dislike the politics underlying community-based work...
Members of the GSD faculty--and Kilbridge as well--deny that the UFS is a political issue. The GSD's policies contradict this statement. Students have found it difficult to get credit for Field Service. In some years the UFS option has been "omitted" from the GSD catalogue, and first-year students only learn of the existence of fieldwork in the GSD curriculum from disillusioned second-year students...