Records received in 1980, box 1, 1951-1976, contain minutes of meetings, proposals, and memoranda about Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty involvement with the Boston Museum of Science Education Committee, 1967-1978; information about the MIT Education Research Center; grant proposals for the National Science Foundation; correspondence about the Consortium of Marine Sciences; a report from the Committee on Faculty Responsibility; and correspondence about the Harry B. Huggins professorship.

Records received in 1982, boxes 2-28, 1967-1983, contain correspondence, memoranda, and reports from the departments and research laboratories and centers which report to the dean of the school. There is correspondence with the MIT Corporation about visiting committees, and information about MIT committees, including the Commission on MIT Education, the Committee on Curricula, the Committee on Radio Astronomy, and the Committee on MIT Research Structure, and records about budgets, fund raising, and long-range planning. There is information about experimental educational programs and the MIT Joint Program in Oceanography with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Correspondence and reports document student and faculty protests against the military and the Vietnam War, and about the safety of recombinant DNA research. There is correspondence with organizations including the National Science Foundation, the National Research Council, and the George R. Wallace Geophysical Observatory. Also included are personnel records for faculty and research staff, and teaching and research assistants.

Records received in 1985, boxes 29-32, 1971-1983, contain personnel records for faculty and research staff. There are also Science Council agendas and minutes, 1980-1982.