This collection contains the Working papers, original drafts, program statements, revised drafts, final copies of sections, and other documents of the Steering Committee for Academic Planning.; headed by Douglas Kindschi, the Committee was responsible for the writing of the Academic Programs Status Report: 1971.

The collection also contains memos, publications consulted, assignment sheets, planning documents, press clippings, student interviews, faculty vitas, bibliography, calendar, consultations the Hampshire Report, resignations requisitions, staff student help and tenure reports. SCAP documents cover graduate study, the applied study program, library philosophy, evaluation , governance, admissions policy, professional career preparation, student services, research policies, campus and environs, curriculum university programs, communication in a technological society, environments, and people, justice and the social order, work/culture society, sociology anthropology, teacher preparation, administration, psychology, community planning professional sequence in accounting, individual study, art, speech, geography, music, philosophy, public affairs colloquium, guidance and counseling, graduation requirements, concentrated studies, professional studies, supporting curriculum, disciplinary programs and other curricula.