The Board of Higher Education adopts several resolutions on a new community college

For several years during the early 1960s, residents and organizations in Central Brooklyn had worked together to get a public college established in their community. In 1967, the Board of Higher Education of the City of New York acceded to their request and proposed a new community college, Number Seven. On February 1, 1968, the Chairman of the Board announced that the new college would be located in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. A Presidential Search Committee was then appointed to select a President for Number Seven. For the first time in the history of the Board of Higher Education, local community representatives were included on a Presidential Search Committee. In January 1969, the Board of Higher Education adopted a resolution changing Number Seven from a community college to a four-year college of professional studies, offering both two- and four-year programs.