Word: hartman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When one of the big shots in the History Department eventually writes the "official history" of Harvard after its 1936 tercentary, where Samuel Eliot Morison '08 left off, odds are he won't mention Chester W. Hartman '57, a former assistant professor of City Planning at the Graduate School of Design...
...conventional standards there's little reason to. Hartman never received tenure at the GSD, teaching for only four years. Although he worked at the GSD's more prestigious conterpart at the University of California at Berkeley after leaving Harvard in 1970, he abandoned the traditional academic world...
...Hartman's destiny of obscurity is sealed most of all by the embarrassing nature of his claim to fame; six years after charging that he was not rehired for personal and political reasons, Hartman is still waiting for a formal response from the GSD faculty...
Initially the GSD faculty and Hartman spent two years debating the proper review mechanism for his grievance, with the faculty eventually creating a five-man investigatory panel of non-GSD professors over Hartman's objections...
That ad hoc panel spent over three years looking into the highly complex case and finally, last September, issued an often ambiguous 300-page report that declined to say Hartman's academic freedom had been violated but did label his grievances "legitimate...