Colleges, Departments, and Programs record group is organized by Colleges first and includes the College of Arts and Science, College of Business (which was created during Nelson's tenure) and College of Education; and is followed by the Graduate School, Unaffiliated Departments, Grant Programs, and Support Programs. Most of the major academic colleges and the Graduate School contains a subseries of materials related to the Dean, including correspondence, memorandum and in the instance of the CAS, COB, and COE materials related to the search committees for new Deans. The College series, especially CAS and COE contains files on each department or specialty within the college, e.g. Special Education, Educational Leadership, History and Art. The Unaffiliated Departments includes files on Contemporary Issues, Field Services, Home Economics, Industrial Education, Media Services, Military Services/ROTC, and Nursing. Grant programs series includes some but not all grant files that came through Nelson's office, one major grant for the School of Education is filed with those records. Support services includes files on the library, and instructional computer services. Given how involved Nelson was the push for a new library [now the John Porter Education Building] there was little in the collection to support this involvement.