During his extraordinarily vibrant and productive tenure as dean ( retiring in 1969 ) , sert oversaw a variety of innovations in the curriculum , including the establishment of the first formal professional degree program in urban design 在他卓有成效的主任任期內( 1969年退休) ,塞特主持了許多富有開創性的課程,包括設立了第一個正式的城市設計專業學位。
Sert ' s academic career began with a year ' s appointment as a professor of city planning at yale ; at the recommendation of walter gropius , he was named dean of harvard ' s graduate school of design in 1953 , with a complementary appointment as chairman and professor of architecture 塞特的學術生涯從他成為耶魯大學城市規劃教授時開始;后來經瓦爾特格羅皮烏斯推薦,于1953年被任命為哈佛大學設計學院主任。