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The ACCESS records encompass an array of items donated at different times. The records include historical information about ACCESS, announcements and other materials that inform about activities and programs, anniversary banquet newsletters, annual reports, and miscellaneous publications. Also, contents of the archived website starting from 2010.

The Additional Interviews series (content of 39 audiocassettes and 0.33 linear feet) dates from 1985 to 2002. It includes materials for interviews, including recordings and supplemental materials that do not belong to any other projects or schools.

The Administration series (0.75 linear feet) includes information about awards, letters of support for AOC, budgets, events, committees, course syllabi, presentations, program summaries, project and partnership listings, publicity, reports, and press coverage. Information on individual projects is found in the Project Files series. Committee records feature two groups, the Graduate Working Group and P-SPACE. The P-SPACE Working Group (Public Scholarship, Public Art, Cultural Engagement) included the Arts of Citizenship, Imagining America, and the Scholarly Publications Office of Digital Library Services, who proposed an online publication series dedicated to public cultural projects and public scholarship in the arts, humanities, and design. Course syllabi are taken from five classes: "Community Resources," UC 310, UC 312, UC 313, and Dance 490.

The Administrative series consists of material related to the organization of the Workshop, its history, financials, website and related correspondence. The series also contains material related to failed proposals and outside recognition of the Workshop.

The WATS Projects series contains material related to specific projects the Workshop members undertook together in addition to the Workshops themselves. These include the editing and publishing the book A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire, and a mini-project to attempt to write a common history of the town Agn/ Egin (modern-day Kemaliye) in Turkey.

The Administrative File holds the records of various committees within IDD and documentation of various reviews of the unit. "Memoranda and Correspondence" primarily contains departmental communications with other university offices. Records of two Review Committees, 1978 and 1984-1985, pertain to analyses of IDD and its original parent organization, Institute of Science and Technology (IST). These folders hold valuable documentation on the status of IDD at those times. The "Realignment" folders contain materials relating to IDD's administrative shift from IST to the College of Engineering and the School of Business.

The Administrative Files series is comprised of records created by the Diversity Blueprints Task Force and its subcommittees in the fulfillment of their official charge from President Mary Sue Coleman. The records in this series were originally created and maintained in a collaborative digital workspace (CTools, the University of Michigan's implementation of the open source Sakai platform). Screenshots of this software platform are included alongside records to provide contextual information about the original environment of the materials. The series is divided into six sections: records of the full Task Force, records of the four subcommittees (Undergraduate Admissions, Financial Aid, and Pipeline; Graduate Student Recruitment, Retention, and Pipeline; Faculty and Staff Hiring and Retention; and Educational Outreach and Engagement), and the Task Force final report. The task force and subcommittee records consist of email correspondence (with attachments), report drafts, suggestions from the community, information on diversity initiatives at peer institutions, meeting materials, PowerPoint presentations, and reviews of U-M efforts to promote diversity.

The Archived Websites series contains online resources created by the University of Michigan to highlight the Task Force recommendations and general efforts to promote diversity on campus. This series contains archived versions of two different Websites and is arranged chronologically, with content captured by the Internet Archive (from 2005 to 2007) and the Bentley Historical Library (in 2005 and 2007). The archived version of the 'Diversity: Research and Resources' Website presents information and reports compiled by the Diversity Blueprints Task Force and its component subcommittees and includes additional information related to Proposal 2, the Michigan ballot initiative that banned the use of affirmative action in admissions decisions. Archived versions of the 'University of Michigan: The Educational Value of Diversity' Website provide information on landmark legal cases involving affirmative action at the university-- Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) and Gratz v. Bollinger (2003)--and detail efforts and initiatives to promote diversity on campus

The Toward A Fair Michigan records reflect that organization's efforts to promote dialogue on the controversial ballot initiative Proposal 2 (the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative) and encourage public participation in the political process. In addition to illustrating essential steps in the formation and management of 501(c)(3) nonprofit groups, the records will be especially valuable to those interested in the public debate surrounding Proposal 2 and the issue of affirmative action in the United States in the early 21st century. The collection is comprised of three series: Administrative Files, Program Director's Files, and Organizational Activities.

The Program Director's Files series is comprised of born-digital records created and maintained by TAFM Program Director Carol Allan and includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, press releases, organizational bylaws, and logistical information for public events. The series also features audio and video recordings of public forums on the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative. This series contains materials related to the other two series in the collection.

The Administrative series includes office correspondence, financial files, meeting minutes, and planning proposals, giving information on the daily operations of the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs. The Administrative series includes records of Minority Student Services (MSS). Within these files are notes from the MSS retreat, MSS training council, and the multi-cultural training program. These programs helped the staff learn more about other cultures and how to plan better programs that serve the needs of students who identified with those cultures. This series also includes materials related to MESA's student organization grant program, files from the computer of Program Manager, associate director and interim director Linh Nguyen, and materials related to the Growing Allies retreat.

The Buildings series has four subseries. The first - Buildings" - consists of photos of the exterior of Ann Arbor businesses and other public buildings (such as the post office and the engine house of the fire department).

The second subseries consists of photographs (primarily exterior views) of Ann Arbor churches. The third subseries includes photos of Ann Arbor houses, arranged alphabetically by owner's name or by the street location if the owner's name is not clear. The last subseries contains photos of various Ann Arbor schools.