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 Studies at the college. President Kneller noted that the BC Faculty Council was considering the proposal to create the department and assured her the proposal would be included in the February 16 agenda of the Faculty Council Meeting.

This item is part of the Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College (PRSBC) Collection, which covers the largely Puerto Rican-led student movement at Brooklyn College (CUNY) during the late 1960s and early 1970s that fought for the creation of the Puerto Rican Studies Department at the college. The collection includes oral history interviews with pioneering student activists, photographs of participants and their struggles, and other archival materials on the fight to create the Puerto Rican Studies Department drawn from the Archives and Special Collections library at Brooklyn College.

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Kneller, John W.

February 5, 1970

English

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Correspondence