In 1972, Indiana University alumnus George Taliaferro was named Special Assistant to IU President John Ryan. While he assisted Ryan on a number of fronts, at the time of his hiring, his stated responsibilities were to include the development of equal opportunity policies and programs for staff and students on all of the IU campuses and assisting in recruiting and counseling minority students. Collection consists of 1.6 cubic ft. of the Special Assistant to the President's records organized in three series: General files, University committees and task forces, Outside committees and groups, and Discrimination charges. The series and order of the records are as they came to the University Archives.