BROOKLYN COLLEGE
OF
THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11210

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

March 12, 1971

“Mrs. Renate Bridenthal
Miss Lilia Melani
Mrs. Allis Wolfe
Delegates of the Brooklyn College
Women's Organization

Dear Ladies:

President Kneller asks me to let you know that his reaction
to your letter dated May (sic) 2, 1971, under the letterhead of the
Department of History, are as follows:

To your concern with the Day Care Collective, the president
responds that everybody who has paid any attention to the subject knows
that he has supported the day care center concept from the beginning.
As for current and continuing problems in relation to a day care center,
the enclosed statement may be of interest to you, though by the time
you receive it the efforts of the dean of students, who is handling
this matter, may have overtaken the document.

Regarding your concern about maternity leaves, you have avail-
able to you the University Senate and the Legislative Conference as
established routes for presenting to the Board of Higher Education any
changes you would like to see effected in the bylaws of the Board.

On your third point, a proposal that there be established an
interdisciplinary program in women's studies, the statutory route is
through the college curriculum committee, which will entertain proposals
from any member of the instructional staff, and which in all curricular
matters must be consulted, or (if long-term policy is involved, which
does not appear to be the case here) you should address your proposals
to the committee on the master plan.



March'125) 1972)

President Kneller suggests that your membership should function
through the thoroughly adequate processes available to all members of
the teaching staff.

EC: al

ce: Dean Peck
Dean Albaum
Dean Gold

Sincerely,

Elizabeth Chirico
Executive Assistant
to the President