Word: hartman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hartman, formerly an assistant professor of City Planning, had his contract terminated in June 1970 by Maurice D. Kilbridge, dean of the GSD. He has long since become happily ensconsced at Berkeley, and has no desire to return here, but he still wants a hearing of the substantive grievances he lodged against the School...
...Hartman charges that his contract termination was prompted by personal and political considerations. Active here in what some would call the New Left of planning, he was vocal in his negative views of the University's plans for the surrounding community. He suspects that those views, and not any question of professional expertise, were behind his dismissal...
...procedures to govern the appeal process, and established the Rogers Committee to oversee the implementation of those procedures. But after several months, the procedures proved unworkable. The first of many delays in the appeal process began as the Rogers Motion was reworked into ad hoc procedures designed expressly for Hartman's appeal...
...procedures were instituted, and Peter P. Rogers, associate professor of City Planning, began attempting to persuade five professors from outside the GSD to serve on the appeal committee. Rogers eventually succeeded in filling the committee in January 1972, but Hartman promptly challenged it in its entirety...
...Hartman charged that two of his rights under the ad hoc procedures had been violated in the committee's selection. In February, Rogers admitted that Hartman's challenge had been correct, and announced that the Rogers Committee would again attempt to form a committee following the ad hoc procedures. Hartman was "pleased" that the GSD recognized its errors, but expressed dismay that "they plan to go through the same drawn out process again...