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The Development Education Program series contains records created between 1985-2004. It has a wide range of materials relating to the training of university fundraising volunteers and donor relations. The majority of the material within this series falls into three sub-series: Committee Materials, Manuals, and Topical. Within the Committee Materials is documentation relating to the Development Office's Advisory Committee, Matching Gift Advisory Committee and Staff Development Advisory Committee. The larger sub-series contains fundraising manuals that focus on introducing fundraising staff and volunteers to the activities and responsibilities of the development office. They cover such subjects as matching gifts, planned giving, and the development offices' database system named RAMIS. These manuals provide a step by step guide to how the development office trained their staff and what expectations and responsibilities they placed upon them. The topical sub-series contains documents that discuss the history of philanthropy at the university and the university's broad fundraising goals between 1986-2004. There are proposals for university-wide Fundraising initiatives, information on the university's endowment, annual giving, and major gifts. Where the Debra Griffith staff files series focus on the fundraising goals of the separate university departments, the materials in the topical series render a representation of the university's broad fundraising, goals.