Word: hartman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago next month, Chester W. Hartman '57, an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Design, was told that his contract would not be renewed the following year. Hartman, a staunch advocate of socially-oriented city planning who opposed Harvard's housing policies in Cambridge, had founded the Urban Field Service in 1968. In 1969, he worked with radical Harvard political groups during a Spring which culminated in the occupation of University Hall...
...following winter, Hartman was dismissed. He charged the administration with political chicanery. Throughout the Spring of 1970, he fought to have an appeal hearing before a non-partisan group of professors to decide whether in fact the non-renewal of his contract had been based on personal and political considerations. He didn't get very far. Today, nearly two years later, his appeal remains unheard...
...Faculty passed guidelines for hearing Hartman's appeal, introduced by Peter P. Rogers, associate professor of City Planning. But on December 31, 1970, Maurice D. Kilbridge, dean of the GSD, sent a memorandum to the faculty of the School saying that efforts to establish the five-man review committee called for in the Rogers Motion had proven futile because of the ambiguity of the guidelines. What he should have said was that the guidelines were worded so that any appeal carried out under them would be meaningless, and that responsible faculty members had refused to take part in such...
...gain control of the department--through meetings and deals with students. Overseers, other faculty and Pusey himself--Kilbridge skirted the guidelines of academic due process. By suggesting to a student-faculty council ways of "getting rid of" he infringed on academic freedom and slandered three colleagues. By first complimenting Hartman on his work as director of the UFS and then turning on him by supporting the non-renewal of his contract, Kilbridge contributed to a growing distrust at the GSD. And, by arbitrarily circumventing the decision of the School's admissions committee in order to attract one man to chair...
...acting dean to succeed Jean Luis Sert. He came from the Business School where he was professor of Urban Systems, to try to put the School back together. It is hard to know what mandate he received from President Pusey. It might have included the ouster of Hartman, and the subsequent ouster of Isaacs, Nash and Vigier. But regardless of mandates, Kilbridge displayed, during his first year as dean, an incredible ineptness in handling the affairs of the School in general and the Planning Department in particular. Since his arrival, the School's troubles have steadily increased; his actions have...