Oral Histories
Interview of Donald E. Hartsock
UCLA’s first ombudsman and university pastor.
- Subtitle:
- UCLA Ombudsman
- Series:
- Interviews not in a series, part one
- Topic:
- UCLA and University of California HistoryUCLA Administration
- Biographical Note:
- UCLA’s first ombudsman and university pastor.
- Interviewee:
- Hartsock, Donald E.
- Supporting Documents:
- Records relating to the interview are located in the office of the UCLA Library's Center for Oral History Research.
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library.
- Abstract:
- Childhood in Lewistown, Pennsylvania; serves in the navy in World War II; attends Waynesburg College on the GI Bill; studies for the ministry at McCormick Theological Seminary; serves as campus minister at DePauw University; call to be a campus minister at the UCLA University Religious Conference (URC); URC's campus role; involvement in student affairs; antiwar campus protests; Los Angeles Police Department campus sweep; Franklin D. Murphy; the Civil Rights movement; off-campus programs: Unicamp, Project India, Tutorial Project, Project Amigos; enlists in the Peace Corps; the Peace Corps Lawyer Program; Peace Corps projects in Micronesia; offer to become the first UCLA ombudsman; defining the ombudsman's jurisdiction; Charles E. Young; trends in education; student and staff complaints; sexual harassment issues; conciliation as a system of dispute resolution; creating the Campus Conciliation Service; problems with the quarter system; labor union activities at UCLA; the Staff Assembly; UCLA administrators; creating an association of campus ombudsmen; the American Arbitration Association; involvement with attorneys at UCLA; detrimental effects of litigiousness; employee/management conflicts and issues of employee evaluation and termination.