Lewis E. Profit served multiple positions at Michigan State Normal College and Eastern Michigan University. The Lewis E. Profit papers includes materials related to his tenture at EMU, as well as his positions after leaving the university in 1974. The majority of materials are correspondece which document Profit's career path from Central Michigan College to Lake Superior State College. Included are photographs, personal correspondence, reports and speeches given on behalf of Eastern Michigan University, and the reaction to his resignation from the university in 1974.