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This is an alphabetical letter series of the General Reference collection. The General Reference Collection was created by archivists to hold information on campus history that is not part of any organic record group. The collection contains material from a variety of outside sources, excepts from newspapers and other publications, press releases and promotional materials, and loose university records.

The series consists of correspondence, reports, and other materials relating to the implementation of the Willowbrook Consent Decree by the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene (known as the 'Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities' from 1978 to the present). The papers are arranged alphabetically, some by topic (e.g., Community Residential Facilities, Hepatitis B Carriers), others by office of origin (e.g., Office of Counsel); in most cases these reflect the original record-keeping system. The two largest groups of materials in the series are: Commissioner's Correspondence which includes correspondence to and from the four men who held the office of DMH/OMRDD commissioner from 1975 to 1981; and Technical Assistance Unit/Consent Decree Office which includes materials by and about the specific office of the DMH/OMRDD charged with implementing the Consent Decree. The series is restricted because it contains information about specific named residents of Willowbrook and other state developmental centers. Most of the material in this series is in letter-sized format. The last box contains legal-sized material in a separate alphabetical arrangement.

Contains the Stop Killing Kids Petitions with signatures gathered from the United States, Canada, and Europe.

For over thirty years, Watt Espy assembled true crime, penitentiary, detective, western U.S. life and culture, and legal publications containing articles about capital crimes, executions, and criminal profiles. The publications date from the 1930s into the 21st Century. While some present straightforward non-fiction explanations of crimes, others feature more sensational accounts with lurid depictions. Of interest are 30 issues of the award-winning , a newsmagazine written by prisoners at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. This series also includes more than a half dozen Death Row annuals, featuring profiles and photographs of condemned prisoners, and a set of serial killer, mass murderer and gangster trading cards. Please note that Espy personally bound the publications in boxes 88-90, but did not include all issues for each year in the bound volume. Therefore some publications have both bound and unbound issues.

This series is made up of faculty files kept for members of the staff of the New York State College for Teachers. There is a file dedicated to each individual faculty member, containing hiring information, correspondence, and in some instances grades and transcripts sent in as part of an application.

In 1952, General Electric published its own "History of Project Cirrus", compiled by Barrington Havens of G.E.'s public relations department. In his introduction, he writes that "[Project Cirrus] was very complex, with a number of subdivisions associated with the main activity. Some of these subdivisions ran consecutively, some operated in parallel, and others intertwined or branched off in variously divergent directions." This preface is relevant to Schaefer's own collection of materials because the "intertwined" nature of Cirrus itself, as well as its roots in Schaefer and Langmuir's previous work, sometimes made it difficult for the archivist to separate Project Cirrus documents from materials that related to cloud seeding efforts but were not strictly part of the work done under the government contract that defined Project Cirrus.

Photographic prints of NCADP conferences and other events.

This series contains documentation of the planning and approval processes for new graduate and undergraduate courses: course action forms, responses to course proposals, and related correspondence.

This series and subsesquent subseries revolve around Dr. Baldus's time in Pennsylvania. Included are the Pennsylvania Charging and Sentencing Study, The Severity Study, The Venire Study, Case Files, and The Miller-el Research.