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Roll Call

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Collective
Bargaining

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Communication

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President

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Committee on
Educational
Opportunity

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MINUTES OF THE MERTING OF ‘THE
FACULTY COUNCTL

May 3, 1968

A speciol meeting of Faculty Council, eslled by Presi~
dent Syrett, was held on Friday, May %, ot 11 A.M., in room
222 Whitehead Hall. Dean Peck presided.

All members of the Council were present except Dean
Goodhartz, and Professors Brostoff, Heffernin, C. Lawrence and.
Withner, who were absent ond excused. Professo: Fave, pewly
appointed acting chairman of the Department of Socinlogy took
the seat of Professor Charles Lawrence, who 1# on sick leave.

for which the epeciol
4 Professor Echmukler

Before entering wpon the business
meeting was called, the Chairmen permitte
to announce that his committee on collective pargeining wee

ve }osition on the issue.

inviting the expression of the negats
Professor Zeller informed the Council that electione would be
held on May 14, 15 and 16.

Dean Peck read a statement from President Syrett, calling
attention to the needs of minority groupe in the community.
The President urged thet action be taken on the samiseion of
a larger percentage of studente from these groupe, that speci4L
and that an attempt

courses be established in their cultures
be made to recruit more non-white faculty and staff members.

He recommended specifically that the Council approve the document
to be presented at thin meeting by the President's Committee on

Educational Opportunity.
Professor Jarrett, for the Committee on Educational Opportunity ,

presented the attached document entitled "A Proposal to Increase
Negro and Puerto Rican Enrollment st Brooklyn College.”

Professor Frankel suggested thet other disadvantaged students
be included. Professor Jarrett saw no objection to that. Pro-
fessor Ehrich wished to include the American Indian emong the
disedvantaged. Dean Breglio pointed out that experience with
the SEEK program shows that such a program would not be limited
to Negroes and Puerto Ricans, though the realities would bring
it about that 95% of the students would be from these groups.
Professor Melisoff urged strongly that the Board of Higher
Raucation be compelled to rewrite ite bylaws to meet the needs

of the times and thet funds be made available for the desired
the suspension of the Ph.D. programs, on which funds
Professor Meyers declared that the enrollment
rto Ricans should not merely be doubled or
nded, but shovld reflect the percentages of
Professor Singer objected to this,
done for these groups at a

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more appropriate, lower level than that of the College.
Professor Rivlin replied that the document merely aims to

start the ball rolling so that all may enter Brooklyn College

on the usual basis. The College would not do the job of the

elementary and high schools but attempt to remedy it. Pro- e
fessor Kenworthy recommended that we increase the number of

students from all poverty areas. Professors Kurrelmeyer,

Taylor, Hickok and Sayres supported the document. Professor

Ascher, though in favor of it, opposed the elimination of the
A-F grading system, which would help evaluete the success of
the program. Professor Mantinband and Dean Koch informed

Council that A-F grades are always recorded.
The committee accepted the following amendment, proposed

by Professor Schmukler, of the first sentence of the document:
"This document is being presented for approval in principle by
of view among

Faculty Council to reflect the prevailing points Pe
Brooklyn College faculty and students, and in harmony with the
tradition of Brooklyn College."

In response to Professor Finston's suggestion that the pro-

gram be expanded, Professor Jarrett stated tuct this was the
first stage of a four-part program his committee was working On.

Professor Block, supporting those who wished to include all dis-
advantaged groups, urged that the report be rewritten in the
Professor Bargman

light of suggestions made or to be made.
expressed the view that approval of the document would be a

service to ourselves as well as to the disadvantaged, since it
Professor

would lead us to revamp our curricular thinking.
Marcus opposed changing the document, because of discrimination

against Negroes and Puerto Ricans and not against poor whites.
Dean Spengler called attention to the fact that the School of
General Studies had been doing for decades what the document

proposed.
The document was approved with Professor Schmukler's

amendment.
Professor Hickok, for the Committee on Committees, which

had been asked by the President to initiate action on the
curriculum, presented the attached document containing a charge
to a proposed Ad Hoc Faculty-Student Committee on Afro-American

Studies, and moved its adoption.

Professor Shimer objected to the sidestepping of the

standing Committee on Curriculum and Admission Requirements.
Professor Hickok responded that the new committee would merely

make general recommendations. In response to Professor Fhrich's
suggestion that the charge include consultation with the Curri-

culum Committee, Professor Hickok stated that that was covered
Professor Gabriel assured Council that the ad

in the charge.
hoc committee would explore and then go to the Curriculum Committee.

Professor Ascher's amendment to have proposals of the ad hoc
committee submitted to the Curriculum Committee for action was

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Professor Secord's motion to delete "not later than
May 16" was defeated by a vote of 30 to 34.

The charge was approved.
Professor Hickok moved the election of the following =
nominees as faculty members of the new committee: Professo
The motion

Matthew (Chairman), Murray, Trent and Watkins.
was seconded. Professors Rivlin, Eisenstedt and Marcus,
ion to close

nominated from the floor, declined. After a mot
nominations was passed, the four nominees were elected.

de by the President in his

In response to the request ma
statement, Professor Meyers moved that the Faculty Counc aa

recommend to departments that increased numbers of no
faculty and staff members be recruited. The motion was
seconded and passed.

The meeting adjourned at 12:55 P.M.
Respectfully submitted,

Dean George A. Peck John J. Spagnoli
Presiding Secretary