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The School of Business at Indiana University was established in 1920 as the School of Commerce and Finance, with William A. Rawles as dean. Nine deans have since followed to the present tenure of Dean Idalene Kesner. Collection consists of correspondence, administrative files, and faculty announcements from John E. Rau's tenure as dean of the School of Business, 1993-1996.

The Indiana University Office of Research and the University Graduate School (RUGS) worked with all eight IU campuses to link research, graduate education, technology transfer, and economic development efforts system wide, and to enhance federal, state, and private support for research and graduate education. The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Minorities Fellowship Program, overseen by RUGS, provided support to under-represented minority students in the University Graduate School and to some under-represented students interested in pursuing graduate study. Ronald R. Smith held the position of Associate Dean in (RUGS) from 1988 to 1996. In this position, he also served as Director of the CIC Minorities Fellowship Program from 1988 until his death in 1997. The collection consists of subject files, administrative files, and records on specific scholarships and fellowships.

The German American Conference was an international meeting of scholars facilitated by the Indiana University Folklore Institute from November 1-3, 1988. The conference, titled "Folklore and Social Transformation: A Dialogue of German and American Folklorists," focused on the social circumstances that influence the ways that folklorists have studied folklore over time. Folklore Institute faculty and staff including Richard Bauman, Linda Dégh, and Inta Carpenter received funding to invite U.S. and German folklorists to present at the conference. It was held directly after the 1988 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society in Boston, for which some German folklorists had already arranged to be in the United States.

The Masters of Business Administration Association (MBAA) is the student-managed not-for-profit umbrella organization chartered to enrich the quality of student life and to build relationships between students, faculty, administration, alumni, prospective students, and the business community. This collection consists of the newspaper of the MBAA spanning 1984-2004.

The Center for Survey Research was established at Indiana University Bloomington in 1981. Its primary function is to serve the academic community and policy researchers through its commitment to high quality survey research. Collection consists of surveys, correspondence, and papers related to surveys performed by the Center and its affiliates. Subjects are varied, but prominent the collection are records related to the Indiana Poll as well as surveys conducted for NASA, 1985-2005.

The School of Business at Indiana University was established in 1920 as the School of Commerce and Finance, with William A. Rawles as dean. Ten deans have since followed to the present tenure of Dean Idalene Kesner. Collection consists of correspondence, administrative files, and faculty announcements from Dan Dalton's tenure as dean of the School of Business, 1997-2004.

Danilo Orescanin was a long time administrator associated with Indiana University in a variety of administrative roles. This collection contains speech files from his time as Vice President for University Relations between 1983 and 1987.

The Women in Folklore (WIF) Oral History Project was a centennial initiative of the women's section of the American Folklore Society. The project aimed to capture the experience of women folklorists across the country. Mary Ellen Brown, Professor of Folklore at IU, organized the project and donated the interviews in her possession to the IU Folklore Archives in 2000. The project was physically housed at the Oral History Research Center, now part of the Indiana University Center for Documentary Research and Practice, and coordinated by a graduate assistant in folklore. Interviewees include Edith Fowke, Eleanor Long, Helen Creighton, Linda Degh, Shirley Arora, Thelma James, Eleanor Long, and Frances Cattermole-Tally. The collection contains correspondence, project information, transcriptions, and audio recordings of interviews, primarily on cassette tapes.

The Folklore Institute at Indiana University began as an eight-week program in the summer of 1942 and received departmental status in the College of Arts and Sciences with an independent faculty in 1963. This collection consists mainly of journals that students created about their Halloween experiences and traditions for the month of October as part of Institute professor John McDowell's Folklore 101 in Fall 1982. These journals were the foundation for McDowell's 1985 article on costuming traditions among college students in Bloomington. The journals, which often included newspaper clippings and event fliers, covered topics include urban legends about Halloween candy tampering as well as the students' experiences with costume selection and preparation, folk and commercialized Halloween products, decorations, entertainment, and food.

Collection consists of 1.4 cubic feet of the Indiana University Student Association Safety Escort Service records spanning 1981-1996. Includes correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, and departmental memos.

The "Indiana Cooler" storage ring at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (IUCF) was a storage ring for light ions, consisting of a circular magnet lattice of about 100 meters in circumference. The storage ring was built to facilitate the novel technology of electron cooling, which made possible the use of an internal target and enabled unprecedented experiments in nuclear research. The collection includes research notes, log books, administrative documents, correspondence, research proposals, photographs, and illustrations related to the operations of the Cooler storage ring and the nuclear research output that was produced with the use of the Cooler.

The concept for the Center for Excellence in Education was proposed in 1982 at Indiana University. The Center was created to provide training to educators on using technology within the classroom, and to advance the research of new educational technologies. This collection consists of files regarding the funding for the Center for Excellence in Education and plans for numerous projects.

The Indiana University Bloomington Professional Staff Council became an official university organization on October 16, 1985. This representative council was created to empower the many professional staff members at the university by giving them a voice in university policies and actions that affect the working conditions, services, and benefits of their employment. The bulk of the collection consists of meeting minutes as well as information concerning the many committees, task forces, and university organizations that affect the daily operations and policies of the Professional Staff Council.

The Early Music Institute was founded in 1980 by Thomas Binkley to create professional-level training for both performers and collegiums in music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. Focus Recordings is the label of the Early Music Institute and provides high-quality recordings of rare and unique early music performances. Focus Recordings employs faculty, guests, students and former students to perform on the recordings. All the performances are faithful to the practices of the composer's time, and utilize period instruments, and original manuscripts when possible. This collection consists of three series: administrative files such as correspondence, contracts, advertising material, and production notes; orders and sales records from several organizations, and recordings.

Formed in 1980, Integrity/Bloomington was the local chapter of Integrity/International, a nationwide LGBTQ+ advocacy and support group affiliated with the Protestant Episcopal Church. This collection consists of some of the newsletters it produced.

Kenneth R.R. Gros Louis was a long time Indiana University administrator. Gros Louis served as Vice President of the entire Indiana University multi-campus system as well as Chancellor of the Bloomington campus. In 1994 Indiana University President, Myles Brand, expanded Gros Louis' role in the university's administration changing his Vice Presidential title to Vice President for Academic Affairs. The collection consists of speeches made by Gros Louis during his academic career between 1979 and 2011.

The Commission on Multicultural Understanding was established in 1982 at Indiana University. The organization strove to make IU an environment in which students could feel safe and at home, regardless of race, age, religion, ability, gender, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status. The collection consists of minutes, reports, and correspondence regarding the yearly operation of the organization as well as details audiovisual and other educational resources on topics such as race, religion, gender identity, sexual identity, sexuality, and rape awareness.

The Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg Project was a documentary production undertaken by Indiana University's Folklore Institute and Radio and Television Services between 1981 and 1983. The grant-funded project allowed a team of folklorists and film crews to attend the Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg Festival, a long-running celebration of classic cars and automotive heritage in Auburn, Indiana, 23 miles north of Fort Wayne. The collection consists of materials that trace the evolution of the Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg Project from planning to debriefing and includes project participants' activities researching and filming the Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg festival.

Established as the Regional Economic Development Institute in 1984, the Indiana University Institute for Development Strategies is a university-wide program that focuses on research to promote economic development, and in particular the links between globalization, entrepreneurship, and the strategic management of regions to promote economic development. Directors of the Institute have included Charles Bonser, 1988-1997, and David Audretsch, appointed in 1998. Bonser also served as the first endowed Chair of the Ameritech Fellowship Program, which was established with a grant from the Ameritech Foundation. Research projects funded by this grant targeted major issues related to the new and emerging economies of mature economic regions with emphasis placed on the American Midwest. This collection consists of correspondence, research proposals and reports, publications, annual reports, working papers, committee files, conference and workshop information, and project records. Prominent in the collection is the Director's correspondence series, organized into two sub-series by incumbent, and records relating to the research projects funded by the Institute. The collection also includes files related to the establishment of the Institute, located in the Administration series.

In 1981, Robert Cochran was named Indiana University Bloomington's Director of Administration and Assistant to the Vice President, serving under Kenneth R. R. Gros Louis, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Bloomington Chancellor. The collection consists of Cochran's general administrative files and records relating to the reviews of non-degree granting units on the IUB campus.