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The Cultural Awareness and Diversity Education series documents the University Housing's efforts to improve the residential experience for minority students and foster a multicultural environment within University Housing facilities. The records were collected by Robbie Townsel-Ransom, who worked in University Housing from the late 1980s through 2011 and whose titles included Director of the Office of Cultural Awareness and Diversity Education and Coordinator of Project Awareness. The records have been divided into four sub-series: Administrative, Campus Organizations, Publicity, and Events.

The Campus Organizations sub-series (1972-2009, 1 linear foot, 0.5 GB) includes files on organizations addressing diversity and multicultural concerns. While files from a number of organizations and programs are contained in this sub-series, two are more comprehensive than the others, because they were key parts of Housing Special Programs: Project Awareness, including the Minority Peer Advisor program, and the university's minority and multicultural spaces. The Minority Peer Advisor Program created a staff position the goal of which was to help foster multicultural understanding and help advise and counsel students in social as well as academic matters. Minority and Multicultural spaces gave minority students and organizations space in which to come together.