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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
Letter from BCWO to President Kneller on Sex Discrimination

This letter to Brooklyn College president John Kneller informs him of the Brooklyn College Women's Organization's (BCWO) formation of "a Discrimination Committee to investigate charges of sex discrimination against any woman on campus, having [...]

Item Type: Text (Diary / Correspondence)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, City / State Relations, CUNY Administration, Diversity, Gender, Legal, Women's Studies
Tags: Brooklyn College, Brooklyn College Women's Organization, Child Care, Demands, John Kneller, Lilia Melani, Renate Bridenthal, Women’s Movement / Feminism
Response to the Brooklyn College Women's Organization from President Kneller

In this letter addressed "Dear ladies," Brooklyn College President John Kneller's office delivers a dismissive response to complaints of sex discrimination and demands made by the Brooklyn College Women's Organization (BCWO). Kneller's office [...]

Item Type: Text (Diary / Correspondence)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Board of Higher Education, CUNY Administration, Gender, Legal, Pedagogy, Politics, Women's Studies
Tags: Brooklyn College, Brooklyn College Women's Organization, Child Care, John Kneller, Lilia Melani, Renate Bridenthal, Sex discrimination, Women’s Movement / Feminism
January 29, 1970 Request for Creation of a Department of Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College

This January 29, 1970, letter, written by Professor Josephine Nieves, Director of the Institute for Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College (BC), makes an official request to found a Department of Puerto Rican Studies at the college. The letter [...]

Item Type: Text (Correspondence)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: CUNY Administration, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Faculty Governance, Puerto Rican Studies
Tags: Brooklyn College, Curriculum, Curriculum Transformation, Dean Albaum, Department of Puerto Rican Studies, Institute of Puerto Rican Studies, John Kneller, Josephine Nieves, Puerto Rican Studies
February 5, 1970 Letter from Brooklyn College President Kneller favoring the establishment of a Department of Puerto Rican Studies at the college

In this February 5, 1970 letter from President John Kneller to Prof. Josephine Nieves, director of the Institute of Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College (BC) responded to her formal request for the creation of a Department of Puerto Rican [...]

Item Type: Text (Correspondence)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: CUNY Administration, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Puerto Rican Studies
Tags: Afro-American Institute, Brooklyn College, Daniel Mayers, Department of Puerto Rican Studies, Faculty Council, Institute of Puerto Rican Studies, John Kneller, Josephine Nieves, President John W. Kneller, Professor Bargman, Puerto Rican Studies

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