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Part-Time Faculty Members of the PSC
This September 29th, 1975 memo , written by David Allen of the Committee for Part-time Instructional Staff, announced a delay in the proposed strike and claimed that the decision to defer it made it unlikely that those who had been fired would be [...]
Arguments Relating to Adjuncts for Submission to Factfinders
This October 10, 1975 memo, written by the Committee for Part-time Personnel and circulated among members and potential members, included both an agenda for an upcoming meeting and a list of arguments relating to adjuncts for fact-finders to present [...]
Letter to Cantor, re: Retrenchment of Adjunct Faculty
This 1975 letter from Stephen C. Vladeck, a prominent labor lawyer a to Mr. Arnold Cantor, Executive Director of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) expressed doubt about the wrongful termination of an adjunct professor and recommended that the [...]
PSC Newsletter to Part-timers
This June 28, 1976 memo from Susan Prager, chairperson of the Committee for Part-Time Personnel, was addressed to part-time members of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC). It included the renewed retrenchment guidelines for adjuncts and stated [...]
PSC v. CUNY re: Dividing full-time positions into adjunct appointments
This grievance, filed on September 17th, 1976, by the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), alleged that CUNY had replaced full-time faculty positions with adjunct appointments despite having sufficient course offerings to reinstate retrenched [...]
" But I'm only an Adjunct "
"Part-Time Teaching at CUNY" was written by members of the Committee of Untenured Faculty (CUF) in 1976. Part I of the article included a collection of anecdotes culled from adjuncts' experiences of precarity and isolation across CUNY. Part II, [...]
Vote for the PSC-BHE Contract
This letter, written by Susan Prager in 1977, urged readers to vote in favor of the Professional Staff Congress - Board of Higher Education (PSC - BHE) contract. While the letter acknowledged that some members would be disappointed, it listed three [...]
NYS Dept. of Labor Unemployment Ruling: Ineligibility to Receive Unemployment Insurance
This decision, dated July 19, 1979, from the office of the New York State Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance upheld an initial determination of claimants John Abreu's and Dinah Levine’s ineligibility to receive unemployment insurance as a [...]
Letter from Polishook to Ledley
This July 25, 1978 lfrom Professional Staff Congress (PSC) President Irwin Polishook to Professor Ralph Ledley, chairman of the Faculty Welfare Trustees, requested that the Trustees estimate the costs of health coverage for "approximately 2000" [...]
Adjuncts as Seasonal Workers
This July 31, 1978 memo from Beryl Weinberg of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) to Tony Ficcio discussed adjunct unemployment insurance. It explained the difficulties adjuncts had receiving unemployment insurance, a significant issue [...]
Slave Labor in CUNY: The Plight of the Adjunct
"Slave Labor in CUNY: The Plight of the Adjunct," published in the City College of New York's (CCNY) Student Senate Publication in November 1979, attempted to dispel any misconceptions about adjunct faculty’s working conditions by highlighting the [...]
Letter from the Adjuncts Benevolent Association to Mr. Polishook
This November 19, 1980 letter , addressed to Irwin Polishook of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) and sent on behalf of the Adjunct Benevolent Association, enumerated why the 9-hour teaching limitation that CUNY had institutionalized was [...]
Higher Education Faculty Leaders Denounce Plan to Replace Career Professors with Part-timers.
This joint May 28, 1982 statement, signed by Nuala Drescher, Lou Stollap, and Irwin Polishook, three NYS faculty union presidents, expressed shock and denounced a proposal put forward by NYS Education Commissioner Gordon Amach, which would have [...]
NY Faculty Protest Move to Increase Use of Part-Timers
Published on June 4, 1982 in he Higher Education Daily, this article, entitled "NY Faculty Protest Move to Increase Use of Part-Timers," reported that NYS faculty unions attacked NYS Education Commissioner Gordon Ambach’s proposal to let [...]
Reject Unlimited License to Staff their Faculties with Part-time faculty
This confirmation copy of a June 24, 1982 Western Union Mailgram from Dr. Irwin Polishook to Chancellor Willard A. Genrich urged the NYS Board of Regents to reject an amendment that would allow NYS universities and colleges unlimited license to [...]
Annual Report of Research Centers and Institutes July 1, 1991 - June 30, 1992
This annual report of the Center for the Study of Women and Society (CSWS) from July 1, 1991, to June 30, 1992, provided a summary of CSWS's mission, activities, scholarly papers in refereed journals, abstracts, and other publications, financial [...]
Background History and Philosophy of the Center for the Study of Women and Society (CSWS) from 1979 - 1996
This 1996 document provided a concise background history of the Center for the Study of Women and Society (CSWS) from its inception in 1977. It began with CSWS's organizing goals in 1977, which were to promote interdisciplinary research and [...]
An Email Thread: Who Actually Was the First Director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society (CSWS)?
This document provides an email thread that began on March 31, 2008, with Anne Humpherys, part of the Graduate Center's External Review Committee for the Center for the Study of Women and Society (CSWS). In her email, Humpherys stated she was [...]
Annual Report for CSWS by Patricia Clough
This report described the Center for the Study of Women and Society's (CSWS) research and sponsored programs in the 2005-06 fiscal year. It included the Conviction Project Seminar, the College and Community Fellowship Program, the Community [...]
External Review for Center for the Study of Women and Society (CSWS) by Adrienne Munich
This external report on the Center for the Study of Women and Society (CSWS) was submitted in May 2008 by Adrienne Munich, interim chair of the Women's Studies Program at the State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook University. Munich began [...]
An Overview: The Center for the Study of Women and Society
This document, dated 2008, described the Center for the Study of Women and Society (CSWS), beginning with its history, mission, Advisory Committee, and operating mechanisms. It stated that CSWS was formed in 1977, founded the Women's Studies [...]
2000-05 Awards List for Center for the Study of Women and Society
Compiled in 2008, this list included all the financial awards and grants the Center for the Study of Women and Society (CSWS) received for various projects between August 1, 2000, and October 6, 2005. The list contains the names of the people who [...]
National Council for Research on Women and the Center for the Study of Women and Society
This October 11, 2006, document provided a description of the Center for the Study of Women and Society (CSWS) for the National Council for Research on Women (NCRW) website. The NCRW had initially sent the CSWS a letter of recognition circa 1992, [...]
External Review and Self-Study of Women's Studies Certificate Program (WSCP)
This self study was prepared by the Women's Studies Certificate Program (WSCP) on March 23, 2007. The self study states that WSCP began in 1990 and that its student enrollment had risen steadily from 132 students in the 2001–02 academic year to [...]
Center for the Study of Women and Society Brochure
This promotional brochure for the Center for the Study of Women and Society (CSWS) began with a brief history of the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, founded in 1961. The first page identified CSWS as a center that had supported [...]
Women Studies Inclusion in Community Colleges Letter and Project Summary
This 1986 summary by the director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society (CSWS), Dr. Sue Rosenberg Zalk, provided a summary of the Community College Gender-Balancing Curriculum Project, an effort to expand Women's Studies at the [...]
Letters requesting information regarding the Gender Balancing Project of CSWS
This file from 1986 included inquiries from various educators about the Center for the Study of Women and Society's (CSWS) guide for"Putting Women into CUNY's Curriculum." This Fall 1985 publication contained resources and materials for community [...]
Addendum to the “Center for the Study of Women and Society: Plans for Expansion and Future Development” grant proposal
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 [...]
"Community College Curriculum Project" Annual Report
This report submitted to the Ford Foundation by the Center for the Study of Women and Society (CSWS) summarizes what CSWS accomplished in the eight months since they received foundation funding. The purpose of the grant was to integrate Women's [...]
"Center for the Study of Women and Sex Roles: Planning for the Future" Ford Grant Final Report
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, [...]
Ford Foundation Grant Approval: Mainstream New Research on Women and Minorities into the Liberal Arts Curriculum of NYC's Community Colleges
This June 19, 1984, letter from the assistant secretary of the Ford Foundation, Diane L. Galloway, to the executive director of the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (CUNY) served to inform CUNY of the approval of a $49,850 [...]
"CSWS: Plans for Expansion and Future Development" Proposal
This June 13, 1983, correspondence from the Center for the Study of Women and Society's director, Mary Brown Parlee, to The Ford Foundation's Program Officer in Charge of the Education and Culture Program, Gladys Chang Hardy, included a proposal for [...]
CUNY's Board of Higher Education Meeting to Approve Study of Women and Sex Roles (CSWS)
This Summary of Action Taken at the November 22, 1976, Meeting of CUNY's Board of Higher Education contained a report of the approval of the Institute for the Study of Women and Sex Roles, which became the Center for the Study of Women and Society [...]
Institute for the Study of Women and Sex Roles Bylaws
This two-page report detailed the Institute for the Study of Women and Sex Roles' purpose and scope, need, functions, audience, space required, estimated costs, sources of funds, and relation to existing centers, schools, and institutes in the [...]
Institute for the Study of Women and Sex Roles Proposal Addendum
This addendum to the proposal for an Institute for the Study of Women and Sex Roles, which would later become the Center for the Study of Women and Society (CSWS), gave a clearer picture of the Institute's desired role in the CUNY system. Expressed [...]
Women's Studies Certificate Program (WSCP) Proposal
This proposal for a certificate program in Women's Studies at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School and University Center (Graduate Center) provided the purpose and objectives, need, and curriculum for such a program. The author [...]
WSCP Proposal Evaluation Report
This review of the Advanced Certificate Program in Women's Studies Proposal from August 1988 reiterated the need and importance of such a program at the City University of New York (CUNY). Dr. Evelyn Torton Beck wrote that the proposed program had [...]
WSCP Approved Governance Structure
This document contained the proposed governance structure for the Women's Studies Certificate Program (WSCP) to be approved by the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School's Graduate Council on March 1, 1990. The proposal included [...]
UFCT Information Notice: Classification of Titles
This information notice, circulated by the United Federation of College Teachers (UFCT) in 1969, explained contract provisions and more specifically the new classification of titles which was to have been fully implemented by 1970. Beginning with [...]
The Center for the Study of Women and Sex Roles Newsletter: Vol. 1, No. 1
The Center for the Study of Women and Sex Roles – now the Center for the Study of Women and Society's (CWSW) – October 1979 Newsletter, was the first issue published for its members and those interested in the Center's activities. This early [...]