Word: puseys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Isaacs, Nash and Vigier are asking the Corporation to terminate Kilbridge's appointment as dean of the GSD. They contend that he has tried--through discussion and plans with students, faculty, members of the School's Visiting Committee and President Pusey--to place himself in control of the Planning Department since his appointment as dean...
President Pusey will not appear, nor will University of Pennsylvania President Martin Meyerson, a former member of the GSD Faculty, who has submitted an affidavit outlining his role as a Committee of One in 1970 to investigate the Planning Department...
...first error, which resulted in Vigier's temporary resignation in 1969 as chairman of the Planning Department, was perhaps an unconscious one. But by working behind the backs of Isaacs, Nash and Vigier to 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...
...internal politics were simmering when he arrived in 1969 as 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...
...this framework, there is an important question as to the individual domain of administrators; questions of the bounds to which a dean, say, is restricted when dealing with different sectors of the University. It seems clear that Kilbridge has flaunted the unwritten limitations of a dean's powers. Perhaps Pusey gave him carte blanche to "clean up" the GSD; if so, then Kilbridge accepted the mandate and applied it with a striking lack of tact and reason...