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The Graebner series is of interest to researchers in the history of anthropology and ethnology, and specifically those concerned with the cultural-historical approach to ethnology which Graebner spearheaded. Graebner was Leser's mentor and perhaps the greatest influence on his academic career and scholarly interests; Leser remained loyal to Graebner's anthropological methodology even after it had fallen out of favor in academic circles.

In the late 1970s UUP faced the most serious challenge to its position as bargaining agent from the New York Educators Association, an affiliate of the National Education Association. UUP disaffiliated itself from the NEA in 1976. The NEA/NYEA challenge culminated in an election for bargaining agent conducted by the New York State Public Employment Relations Board in December 1978. Through much of 1978, UUP campaigned for its continuation as bargaining agent for SUNY faculty and non-teaching professionals, with the assistance of professional organizers from the AFT and NYSUT field representatives.

Around the time of Schaefer's break with Munitalp, the American Meteorological Society (AMS, of which Schaefer was a member) approached him to inquire about the possibility of setting up a summer science program for promising high school students. They decided on the existing Loomis School in Windsor, Connecticut as the location for their summer program, which began in 1959 with the support of the National Science Foundation. Schaefer and his colleagues wanted to give academically strong students with a particular interest in science the opportunity to attend extra lectures and, more importantly, experiment with hands-on projects of their choosing. Schaefer and his AMS associates hoped to cultivate a love of learning and passion for discovery that would encourage teens to follow scientific career paths. Although the program began as a males-only endeavor, it eventually welcomed females into its ranks later in the 1960s.

Course/lecture notes (27 folders) are primarily from courses taught at the University of Chicago, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Minnesota.

During the 1980s and early 1990s UUP worked to correct salary disparities on behalf of its bargaining unit using a fund established in its contracts with the state. The contracts specifically prohibited the use of the fund for across-the-board salary increases and left the determination of the exact allocation of the disparity funds to a joint state/UUP committee. The primary intent of the disparity project was to identify specific categories of employees whose salaries were below national standards, not to address individual salary disparities. This did not prevent many bargaining unit members, however, from writing to UUP to make a case as to why their individual salary was unfair and should be corrected. For the most part, particularly for the latter disparity funds, materials submitted by individual applicants were not retained.

The Lips series is of interest not only because of the plagiarism case itself, but also because of the way the case reflects the academic and political climate of Germany in the early 1930s. The case began in 1928, when Martin Block, Lips' assistant at the Raustenstrauch-Joest Museum, complained to Johannes Lehmann, director of the Frankfurt Museum and head of the Association of German Ethnological Museums. Among other grievances, he charged Lips with plagiarizing the anthropologists Fritz Graebner, Wilhelm Schmidt, and Wilhelm Koppers in his work Einleitung in die vergleichende Voelkerkunde. Lehmann and his assistants, Ernst Vatter and Paul Leser, documented the plagiarism and quickly became embroiled in the controversy. The case (or cases, as many different charges and countercharges were filed), eventually reached the courts and involved many prominent German and Austrian academics. It also became a political conflict, played out in the newspapers, as Lips was a member of the Social Democratic Party. The Social Democratic newspapers supported him, while the more conservative papers used the charges as an excuse to attack Lips' character. The case, for all intents and purposes, ended when the Nazis came to power in 1933. Beyond the political and academic aspects, the case is also of note as it helps to illuminate Leser's continuing interest in academic honesty, plagiarism, and the critique of sources.

This section contains copies of offprints and publications sent to Friedländer by colleagues and friends.

This series contains the Charging and Sentencing Study Case Files for both Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, the Data Collection Instruments, the Severity Study, the Venire Study, and the Subject Files.

In the late 1980s, UUP created an "Archives Committee", responsible for creating a plan for the long-term management and preservation of UUP's records. The records of the Archives Committee are included in Series 4 of Subgroup IV, Office of the Secretary. It is unknown if the committee specifically solicited historical documents or if an awareness of the committee and its charge prompted members to send to UUP materials they thought were historically important. Regardless, this series is an eclectic mix of materials relating to the Senate Professional Association, the State University Federation of Teachers, the State University Professional Association, and UUP. It reflects activities both statewide and on individual campuses and includes correspondence, meeting minutes, newsletters, negotiations proposals, handwritten notes, and workshop handouts. The records document some of the activities of the American Association of University Professors on SUNY campuses; mailings received by members of SPA welcoming them to that organization and informing them of the issues of the day; meetings of SUFT and SUPA; SPA's negotiations in the early 1970s and UUP's negotiations in the late 1970s; and some of the materials distributed to its leadership at the many workshops UUP has held over the years. One folder in the series documents student strikes on the SUNY Albany campus in 1970 and the response of faculty to those activities. Some of the materials in this series duplicate those found in Subgroup II, UUP Predecessors and Early UUP Years, and in the negotiations records in Subgroup VI for the applicable contract years. However, some of the campus-specific materials and the correspondence sent by SPA to its members are unique to this series, as are the set of workshop booklets.