In 1977, the Sociology and Philosophy programs in the Graduate Faculty failed accreditation review, and in 1978 the New York State Board of Regents rescinded accreditation for the Graduate Faculty doctorate programs in philosophy, political science, and sociology-anthropology, leading to the resignation of the Graduate Faculty Dean, Joseph Greenbaum and subsequent appointment of the University of Chicago political scientist Ira Katznelson as Greenbaum's replacement. A consortium agreement with the Graduate Center of the City University of New York enabled students to apply CUNY course credits towards a PhD degree at The New School. (Both Sociology and Philosophy PhD degrees were reinstated in the mid- to late-1980s). These files document the accreditation crisis through correspondence, departmental proposals, reports, and mission statements, student responses, appointment records, Trustee resolutions and working papers on the history and status of the Graduate Faculty at the New School, Including a “systematic and critical investigation of the meaning and uses of the social sciences,” and a report and recommendations to the Commissioner of Education of the State of New York from the Sociology Rating Committee 1977-1978, comprised of professors from five universities. For related records, see the Graduate Faculty of New School for Social Research collection (NS.02.02.01), History series; and the New School for Social Research records (NS.02.02.03), Departments and programs series.