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...grievance proceedings brought by three senior professors against Maurice D. Kilbridge, dean of the Graduate School of Design (GSD), have been delayed beyond reason. The Corporation met yesterday to decide final procedural questions for hearing the grievances next month, but the prospect of more delays to allow for legal maneuvers is an unwelcome one. The proceedings before the Corporation began last November, and have been put off for one reason or another ever since; the latest postponement of the hearings--from September to November--has left the GSD in a state of flux. At a time when the School...
Clearly, the GSD is in trouble. Like the rest of the University, the School is confronted with severe financial restrictions. These are augmented by cost overruns for Gund Hall, its new home which will ultimately cost more than $10 million. The School's faculty has had to cut back in administrative expenditures, its secretarial staff has been drastically reduced, and more students are being admitted--overloading the faculty but easing the tight money situation...
Economics is a minor worry, however, when compared to the School's internal disarray. The GSD has been torn apart during the past five years by constant feuding between faculty, students and administrators. There was a time in the mid-1950s when the Design School was regarded as the top school of design and urban planning in the country. In that era--when Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus, brought his genius to the GSD first as dean and later as professor emeritus--its attraction both to students and faculty was unparalleled. No more, Today, the GSD is flatly...
During the past decade, while some sectors of the GSD have moved forward, the Planning Department has remained stagnant. Between 1955 and 1970, only three men--Reginald R. Isaacs, Norton Professor of City and Regional Planning; William W. Nash, Jr., '50, former professor of City and Regional Planning; and Francois C. Vigier, professor of City Planning and Urban Design--served as chairman of the Planning Department. Isaacs alone held the chairmanship for over ten years...
Interviews with at least three professors at the GSD--Maurice D. Kilbridge, dean of the School, Jerzy W. Soltan, chairman of the Architecture Department, and Reginald R. Isaacs, Norton Professor of City and Regional Planning--were conducted by HEW investigators. No findings by the HEW have been released...