Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John W. Porter collection documents Porter's tenure as University President from 1979 until 1989. The collection is organized as it was given to University Archives and is organized loosely by topic, containing fifteen identifiable series and one identifiable subseries. Identificable series include Budget, Searches, Tuition, Colleges, Board of Regents, Exectuive Council, Recommendation Letters, Financials, and multiple Correspondence series. Additional...

Abstract Materials in the Fred J. Ericson papers are organized in two series: Professional and Military Service. Material in the Professional series is extremely limited given his tenure teaching in the Department of History. This series includes three publications written by Ericson about British Colonialism; Promotion Materials and Posthumous items. Materials in the Military Service series includes photographs and items...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Subject Index Cards series contains the individual broadcasts from each reel or cassette. There are several broadcasts on each reel or cassette, and the index card system was devised to easily parse out the contents from each reel or cassette without having to dig through the physical tapes. The index cards are catalogued by subect. Westerman's original subject headings were lost during a change of residence, and additional subject headings were added by the Eastern Michigan University...