Letter from Department Chairs & Program Directors to BC Administration

April 27, 2020

We respectfully request that you hold a virtual Town Hall on the BC budget for the campus community before we resubmit our Fall 2020 schedules. We take the New York State budget crisis seriously and recognize its adverse impact on Brooklyn College. We are willing to continue working in a spirit of collaboration. Nevertheless, we and other members of the campus community have questions that deserve answers before dramatic actions are taken to reduce Fall course offerings. We ask that you make available the day before the meeting the budgetary data on which you have based the contingency planning.

Humanities & Social Sciences
Prudence Cumberbatch
Africana Studies
Danielle Kellogg
Classics
Susan Longtin
CASD
Ellen Tremper
English
Gunja SenGupta
History
David Brodsky
Judaic Studies
Vanessa Pérez Rosario
Modern Languages & Literatures
Robert Lurz
Philosophy
Immanuel Ness
Political Science
Maria Perez y Gonzalez
PRLS
Naomi Braine
Sociology
Natural & Behavioral Sciences
Jillian Cavanaugh
Anthropology & Archaeology
Peter Lipke
Biology
Maria Contel
Chemistry
Yedidyah Langsam
Computer & Info Sciences
Jennifer Cherrier
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Kathleen Axen
Health & Nutrition
Namulundah Florence
Kinesiology
Stephen Preston
Mathematics
Mim Lal Nakarmi
Physics
Glen Hass
Psychology
Visual, Media, and Performing Arts
Mona Hadler
Art
Marianne Gythfeldt
Conservatory of Music
Annette Danto
Film
Katherine Fry
TV, Radio, & Emerging Media
Kip Marsh
Theater
Murray Koppelman School of Business
Daniel Tinkelman
Accounting
James Lynch
Business Management
Yehuda L. Klein
Economics
Sunil K. Mohanty
Finance
School of Education
Yoon-Joo Lee
Childhood/Bilingual/Special Ed
Jacqueline Shannon
Early Childhood/Art Ed
Eleanor Miele
Secondary Ed
Florence Rubinson
School Psych/Counseling/Leadership
Interdisciplinary Programs
Joseph Entin
American Studies
Dale Byam
Caribbean Studies
Katherine Hejtmanek
Children & Youth Studies
Sharona Levy
Communication
Jonathan Nissenbaum
Linguistics
Lauren Mancia
Religion
Rebecca Boger
Urban Sustainability
David Grubbs
PIMA
Mobina Hashmi
Women’s & Gender Studies

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