May 24, 1972 Letter from Brooklyn College President John Kneller Confirming Approval of the Puerto Rican Studies Major at the College
Item
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May 24, 1972
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Dean for Academic Development
535 East 80 Street, New York, N.Y. 10021
212/360-2278
May 24, 1972
Title
May 24, 1972 Letter from Brooklyn College President John Kneller Confirming Approval of the Puerto Rican Studies Major at the College
Description
Two years after the official establishment of the Department of Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College (BC), the CUNY Committee on the Academic Program on May 23, 1972 approved BC's proposal for a major in Puerto Rican Studies.
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.
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.
Contributor
Brooklyn College Library, Archives and Special Collections
Creator
Ballard, Allen B.
Date
May 24, 1972
Language
English
Relation
14122
14092
13992
13982
13972
Rights
Public Domain
Source
Brooklyn College Library, Archives and Special Collections
Original Format
Correspondence
Ballard, Allen B. Letter. “May 24, 1972 Letter from Brooklyn College President John Kneller Confirming Approval of the Puerto Rican Studies Major at the College”. 14122, CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE, accessed March 10, 2026, https://stephenz.tailc22a4b.ts.net/s/cdha/item/2129