Board of Trustees of the City University of New York Meeting Minutes

The Board of Trustees (formerly the Board of Higher Education of the City of New York) is the governing body of CUNY. The Board creates, amends, and enforces all CUNY-wide policies, makes all funding decisions, and has final say in all tenure appointments. Its meetings are public, held monthly, and address university-wide issues and petitions by each college. It was heavily involved in CUNY colleges’ responses to the Red Scare, the Rapp-Coudert investigations, and McCarthyism, especially with firings or non-reappointments of faculty and staff. Meeting minutes are available in the form of bound volumes at every CUNY campus archives, dating back to each school’s establishment.