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Published for the Faculty and Staff of Brooklyn College

Volume 1, no. 6 March 20, 1970

THREE NEW DEPARTMENTS The establishment of three new departments in
ANNOUNCED AT FACULTY the college was announced at the Faculty Coun-
COUNCIL MEETING cil meeting of March 17. The Department of

Information Science offering computer-related
courses is completely new and in the process of organization, with a
chairman yet to be announced. The other two new departments, Afro-
American Studies and Puerto Rican Studies, have existed since last fall in
the form of institutes. The two institutes will continue to coexist with
the departments, the chairmen heading both the departments and the insti-
tutes. Josephine Nieves is directing the Puerto Rican Studies, while
Daniel Mayers is acting head of the Afro-American progran.

- Departments will be able to function more successfully than institutes,
Prof. Nieves said, because they will be empowered to develop curriculums,
offer courses, hire faculty members, and cooperate with other departments
in setting up intradepartmental classes. The two institutes will further
develop community projects, research programs, and other activities more
appropriate to them than to departments. Prof. Mayers said that his insti-
tute had already conducted several field trips to acquaint students with
their own neighborhoods and others of the city. An extended midwestern
trip--to Chicago, Detroit, and Gary--planned by Craig Bell for spring va-
cation will study the black neighborhoods of those cities.

Computer courses have been given in the past by the Department of Mathe-
matics. Three new computer-related courses were approved earlier this
year by Faculty Council. The President's Advisory Committee on Computer
Science has functioned under the chairmanship of Melvin Ferentz.

Brooklyn College's baccalaureate degree nurs-

BACCALAUREATE DEGREE ing program has been reactivated under coopera-

NURSING PROGRAM tive arrangements with the College of Nursing
of Downstate Medical Center. The next program,

which will begin next September, was announced by Dr. Joseph K. Hill,
president of the Medical Center, and President John W. Kneller.

BC-DOWNSTATE REACTIVATE

Being launched on an experimental basis for five years, the program will
admit students each year from the entering freshman classes at BC. They

will be selected by a joint committee representing the two institutions.
After completing 64 credits in liberal arts courses at BC, including
courses specified by the College of Nursing, the students will enter the
nursing program and thereafter maintain joint matriculation.
graduate with B.S. degrees from The State University.

They will