Word: hartman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hartman is perhaps the outstanding scholar in the City Planning Department. In the last ten years he has published three major articles in the leading professional journal, the Journal of the American Institute of Planners; the other 13 professors in the department combined have produced only one article. The Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies lists three publications by Hartman; zero by other professors in the department. In the last few months Herbert Gans, Nathan Glazer, and other leading housing experts have testified to Hartman's academic ability. The School has produced no evidence to support its view...
...Hartman's teaching is respected by students. Last semester Hartman had the third largest class in the City Planning Department. Two years ago a student teaching evaluation rated Hartman top in the department. The Dean may be better qualified to judge Hartman's teaching than students are, but he has not attended one of Hartman's classes...
...Hartman has worked hard to help the poor and the black. He is director of Urban Planning Aid. Boston Urban League, and Planners for Equal Opportunity. He was recently nominated for Vice-President of the American Institute of Planners. He founded and directed the Urban Field Service, which allows students to receive academic credit by working for community groups. The Urban Field Service has been praised by such diverse sources as Harvard's Wilson Report, Der Spiegel and Dean Kilbridge, who described U.F.S. as "one of the finest programs in the School...
...feel that the reasons for Hartman's dismissal are not academic but political. He has been a persistent and effective critic of national, University and School policies. In 1964 he ran as a peace candidate against Senator Edward Kennedy. He opposed University expansion in Cambridge and Roxbury, demanded that the University build low income housing and supported the April 1969 strike, after which the Corporation announced plans for low-and moderate-income housing in both areas. During the Organization for Black Unity's campaign for more black construction workers at Harvard, Hartman pointed out that Archibald Cox's arguments...
...Hartman's criticism of Harvard and the GSD has clearly angered the tenured professors of the City Planning Department: Nash, Vigier and Isaacs. Prof. Vigier recently rang up the Ford Foundation and dissuaded it from funding the U.F.S. In June 1969 Professor Nash, then chairman of the City Planning Department, wrote as follows to Hartman: "I have decided that I cannot support your reappointment... and will urge my successor to consider next year as terminal. I am doing this because I am convinced that your method of teaching conveys a sense of political strategy more than the substance of city...