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Letter to Brooklyn College President John Kneller on Budget Cuts and Faculty Tenure

During the 1970s, CUNY experienced a fiscal crisis resulting in faculty and staff layoffs, increased tuition, as well as cutbacks in open enrollment. As a result, the coordinators of the Brooklyn College Women's Studies Program drafted this letter [...]

Item Type: Text (Diary / Correspondence)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Austerity, CUNY Administration, Diversity, Gender, Politics, State and/or City budget, Tuition, Women's Studies
Tags: Brooklyn College, Budget Cuts, Employment, John Kneller, Tucker Pamella Farley, Women’s Movement / Feminism
Oral History Interview with Renate Bridenthal

This oral history interview with Renate Bridenthal, a founding member of the Brooklyn College Women’s Organization, discusses the political climate at Brooklyn College from the 1960s through the 1980s amidst the historical backdrop of the various [...]

Item Type: Oral History (Digital)
Time Periods: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover, 1978-1992 Retrenchment - Austerity - Tuition
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Activism, Gender, Health and/or Environmental Issues, Legal, Pedagogy, Politics, Women's Studies
Tags: Bart Meyers, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn College Women's Organization, Child Care, Freddie Wachsberger, Renate Bridenthal, Sex discrimination, Tucker Pamella Farley, Women's Center, Women’s Movement / Feminism

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