December 10, 1968 Letter from Al Vann to Frederick Burkhardt
On December 10, 1968, Al Vann, Chairman of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Coalition on Educational Needs and Services (B-SCENS), wrote to Frederick Burkhardt, Chairman of the New York City Board of Higher Education, to comment on a debate that had transpired in a recent meeting of the Presidential Search Committee for Community College 7 of which they were both members. In recent weeks, the Committee had discussed several contentious issues between the delegations from the City University of New York (CUNY) and the one from the Bedford-Stuyvesant community, fueling the Bed-Stuy delegation’s concerns about CUNY's sincerity about its commitment to establish a new college controlled by the Bed-Stuy community. In the letter, Vann praised Burkhardt's “dignity and patience,” while criticizing the “admitted insensitivity” of other CUNY officials in the meeting, concluding that he was optimistic that the two parties could “continue to meet the challenges which will enable us to overcome unavoidable problems, and achieve our common goals."
Source | Donald Watkins Collection (Brooklyn Public Library)
Creator | Vann, Al
Date Created | December 10, 1968
Item Type | Text (Correspondence)
Cite This document | Vann, Al, “December 10, 1968 Letter from Al Vann to Frederick Burkhardt ,” CUNY Digital History Archive, accessed January 25, 2025, https://cdha.cuny.edu/items/show/13622.
Creator | Vann, Al
Date Created | December 10, 1968
Item Type | Text (Correspondence)
Cite This document | Vann, Al, “December 10, 1968 Letter from Al Vann to Frederick Burkhardt ,” CUNY Digital History Archive, accessed January 25, 2025, https://cdha.cuny.edu/items/show/13622.
