CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

This correspondence from January 8, 1985, provided the final report for the "Center for the Study of Women and Sex Roles: Planning for the Future" grant from the Ford Foundation. The grant, which ran from November 1, 1980 to August 31, 1983, provided the Center for the Study of Women and Society (CSWS) with funds to fulfill the functions it was established to do at its inception. According to the report, the grant allowed CSWS to form the City University of New York (CUNY) Feminist Network, which coordinated activity among faculty and students throughout the twenty-one CUNY campuses. The grant enabled CSWS to facilitate and support women's research and two sets of activities. These included: (1) research and a seminar series with the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and (2) the aforementioned CUNY Feminist Network, which united the different feminist groups at CUNY. The CUNY Feminist Network met to discuss sex, race, and class in academic, personal, and political spheres. Director of CSWS and author of the report, Mary Brown Parlee, identified CSWS's next goal as expanding the work of the Feminist Network to create real social change.