Includes correspondence, course notes, grant proposals, discussion group notes, committee reports, notebooks, faculty papers, speeches, and publications documenting activities sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study, including Science, Technology, and Society Program, informal get-togethers of CAS faculty, the Creative Responses to Retrenchment Study Group, the University Research Park Study Group. Additional subjects treated include the Educational Technologies Board, the National Computational Science Alliance, the Beckman Institute, the planned University research park, educational administration, and vacuum research. The files contain drafts and correspondence related to Alpert's paper, "Performance and Paralysis."