This collection includes files accumulated and developed in the offices of Dr. James G. Martin, William C. Lang, Martin J. Nelson, Wallace Anderson, Fred Lott, and Patricia Geadelmann. Most of the material comes from offices that evolved into the Offices of the Vice-President and Provost and Assistant Vice-President, Academic Affairs. As such, the material deals mostly with faculty and curriculum. The files cover the period from about 1957 through about 1989, with the heaviest coverage in the 1970s. They are especially useful in tracing the development of programs, services, and curriculum during a time of great growth and change for UNI.

This series should be used in conjunction with series 03/01/03. Material in these two series came to the University Archives from the same sources but at different times. The material which makes up 03/01/03 arrived in the Archives after the retirement of Fred Lott from the Office of Academic Affairs. There is considerable overlap between these two series, especially in material relating to the Regents and their inter-institutional affairs.

Boxes 1-10 contain correspondence and reports relating to the curricular process at UNI. Parties involved in the process include the Vice-President and Provost, the Assistant Vice-President for Academic Affairs, deans, department heads, college senates, the Faculty Senate, the General Education Committee, and the Curriculum Committee. Documentation includes committee minutes, curricular recommendations from departments and colleges, final reports from the Senate to the Regents,, and letters of transmittal and explanation. Many of the reports contain handwritten emendations and corrections made by Fredd Lott (Academic Affairs) and by Ruth Hays Fairbanks (editor of the catalog). Material is arranged chronologically and, within a chronological period, by college or department.