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Thus, the first panel wrote, Hartman was denied the "only safeguards one has against the unwarranted influence of subjective considerations." While the panel says it found no evidence to show that personal biases affected the decision, procedural defects "leave the question more open than it ought...
...Academic Policy Committee asserts that "it is clear that the process used by the Department of City and Regional Planning for considering the quality of Dr. Hartman's teaching did not reflect the systematic and thorough process that one would hope to find in a quality institution." The process should have been more careful and the senior faculty "could and should have made themselves better informed," the panel adds...
However, the panel continues, the senior faculty did know that Hartman's teaching interests had shifted to a community organizing focus and that he saw the Urban Field Service (UFS) as academic, not extracurricular...
...then concludes that "while the process of review was neither systematic nor thorough, the Department did have informed grounds pertaining to Dr. Hartman's teaching on which to base a decision...
...review committee last fall appeared to reach a different conclusion on the department's evaluation of Hartman's teaching. Its report said the department undertook "no systematic attempt" to "assess, influence, or even find out precisely" what Hartman was teaching, despite the fact that "teaching performance purportedly was a central concern...