CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

This correspondence from the director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society (CSWS), Mary Brown Parlee, to Alison Bernstein from the Education and Culture Program at the Ford Foundation on September 23, 1983 served to elaborate on the nature and functions of the Advisory Board of the City University of New York's (CUNY) Feminist Network Community College Curriculum Change Project. The addendum indicated that the Advisory Board was a group that would develop a report on the current status of Women's Studies and of women students in different programs at CUNY's community colleges, and propose specific plans for increasing exposure at each CUNY community college campus. The Advisory Board would also provide resources for integrating Women's Studies material into community college courses and assess the resources from a faculty and student point of view, particularly that of minority faculty and students. The correspondence showed that the Center was thinking about the roles of race and class in feminist analysis, the importance of integrating Women's Studies beyond the graduate level, and the importance of producing accessible teaching and learning material.