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...pursuing music academically, Kraft found himself studying in the VES department where he developed an interest in the visual arts as well...
Phelan is also criticized for living in New York. While she maintains an apartment in New York, Phelan lived in a house in Cambridge throughout her time at Harvard, and her prodigious efforts on behalf of the VES department and the Carpenter Center are testament to her presence here. Other accusations are similarly misplaced...
...larger question for the Harvard community is what the mid-semester decision to replace Phelan as chair may mean about the Faculty’s commitment to the VES Department and the study of the arts at Harvard. The historical context of the events that occurred this spring traces back to the Buell Report issued in August 1993, where a Special Advisory Committee in Visual and Environmental Studies urged Knowles to strengthen the department and urged Harvard to affirm a commitment to making visual studies flourish at Harvard. Phelan was hired thereafter as Professor of Practice with the mandate...
Phelan and the department looked forward to a substantive review of VES and its role at Harvard by an external review committee scheduled for the spring of 2001. This visiting committee of nationwide stature had not reviewed the department for five years and was to return April 10-11. Phelan’s unanswered letter to Knowles of September 1999 and thoughtful additional comment from many other faculty were scheduled to be sent to the visiting committee on Friday, March 16. Instead, on March 15, when Knowles asked Phelan to resign as chair of the department, he also informed...
...writer is an attorney retained by former VES department chair Ellen Phelan...