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The Unit Publications series includes brochures, bulletins including school catalogs, histories, manuals, newsletters, proceedings, programs, and reports describing the development of the School of Education at the University of Michigan.

The Annual Announcement bulletins date from 1880 to the present. In addition, there are several bulletins describing advanced study in education, vocational study courses, courses for part-time students, and weekend courses.

The School of Education publications include several newsletter titles for which the Bentley Historical Library has complete runs. These include the Bulletin (1929-1964) and the Innovator (1969- ), which feature articles on current topics of interest in education as well as activities within the School of Education and of its alumni. Sigma (1970- ), an internal weekly newsletter, describes the day-to-day operations of the School of Education.

The Unit Publications series includes brochures, bulletins, calendars of events, directories, histories, manuals, newsletters, planning documents, programs, proposals and reports.

Academic degree program requirements are defined in what is called the university "bulletin" or general catalog. For example, program requirements outline how many credits and what subjects a student needs to complete in order to receive a degree in an academic program within a specific school or college. At theUniversity of Michigan, the degree program requirements are positioned as a contract between the university and the student with regard to the definition and program requirements. Bulletins are arranged chronologically by academic year from 1881 to the present. There is a complete run of college bulletins available via print and digitized copies. As of academic year 2018, print copies of the Bulletin have been discontinued. The online version is available at http://bulletin.engin.umich.edu.

This series also includes calendars titled The Week Ahead, The Two Weeks Ahead and This Month Ahead, which describe day-to-day activities of the college from 1967 to 1999. The College of Engineering published the directories Photographic Roster of the Engineering Faculty from 1969 to 1983 and the Faculty Directory from 1985 to 2001. Earlier faculty pictorial directories dating from 1960 to 1969 will be found under the "Industry Program" in the Sub-Unit Publications. There are several histories in the Unit Publications series, including the centennial history titled A Century of Engineering Education published in 1953, and an undated History--College of Engineering Buildings. There are several manuals which describe the community, university, and the College of Engineering in detail for incoming students. These include The Arch which was published in 1940 and What Every Engineer Should Know...Or...The Facts of Life (At Michigan), issued in 1949. To orientate its students the College of Engineering published The U-M Survival Guide to the Engineering Universe in 1991, and from 1995 to 1997 and 2004 to 2008, The First-Year Students' Handbook.

There are several newsletters published by the college, including News, issued from 1981 to 1982, News from the College of Engineering published from 1982 to 1983, and The Michigan Engineer which was first released in 1984 and continues to the present. What's New in the College of Engineering was printed from 1992 to 1993. The Unit Publications series also includes planning documents describing the vision for the future of the college, programs for various events occurring at the college, proposals to various government agencies requesting support, and reports on improving engineering education and space utilization.

The Unit Publications series contains printed material published specifically by the School of Kinesiology. These publications are defined as being widely distributed and may be published at regular intervals. They are arranged by genre of the publication. Previous to 1990 this unit was known as the Department of Physical Education and the Division of Physical Education.

The Unit Publications include annual reports published from 1987 to 1989. There are also bulletins or course catalogs which describe courses offered by the Division of Physical Education and the Division of Kinesiology for the period from 1987 to 1998. The researcher should consult the School of Education Publications (0347, Bimu, C202, 2) for bulletins, from 1921 to 1984, with descriptions of courses offered by the Department of Physical Education. The electronic version of the School of Kinesiology bulletin, from 1998 to the present, is the authoritative source of admission information, course offerings and degree requirements for both undergraduate and graduate programs. Many of the bulletins contain addenda as well as student forms, the latter of which are record sheets used for tracking progress in program requirements and electives for the school's different programs.

The history Kinesiology: A Michigan Tradition, 1894-1994 was written to celebrate the centennial of physical education instruction on the University of Michigan campus. This series also contains several manuals describing the study of physical education for both men and women as well as an information handbook for majors, minors and dance students. There are also three newsletters found in this series. The Division of Physical Education Alumni Newsletter covers the years 1985 through 1986. The alumni newsletter Movement was first published in 1988 and continues to the present. It describes the activities and research of the faculty, staff, students and alumni. The 1984 issues of Physical Education Newsletter are available here. The researcher should consult the School of Education Publications for 1983 issues.

The Unit Publications series contains printed material published specifically by the Office of Research. These publications are defined as being widely distributed and may be published at regular intervals. They are arranged by genre of the publication.

Unit Publications include annual reports, brochures, budgets, ephemera including flyers, invitations, posters, and programs, manuals, newsletters, policy statements, presentations and reports. The annual reports include those written for the Board of Regents, under the titles Research Report to the Board of Regents, Report to the Regents, and Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity at the University of Michigan: Annual Report to the Regents, date from 1986 to 1999. These publications highlight the various types of research, detail expenditures, and summarize research proposals done by the faculty and staff of the University of Michigan. Researchers should consult the annual "presentations" made to the Board of Regents by the Vice President for Research for more concise report on research and scholarly activity.

In 1996 this presentation was entitled Research Expenditures, Sponsored Proposals and Awards. The presentation to the Regents in 1997 was Research and Scholarly Activities: A Presentation to the Regents. Support for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities: Annual Financial Report, documents the period from 1988 to 1998 and summarizes Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) funding allocations by unit, expense category (equipment, salaries, student support, supplies, and travel), academic division, rank of applicant (assistant, associate, and full professors, research scientists, curators, lecturers, and research investigators), gender, and race.

The 1994 and 1996 Report to the Executive Officers highlight the activities and functions of the OVPR for that year, including initiating information and discussion sessions on responsibility in the conduct and administration of research; conducting open forums to discuss updates in technology, to review new policies toward human subjects, and to assess the impact of Value-Centered Management (VCM) on interdisciplinary research; and developing the OVPR website to provide information about the University of Michigan research program and its policies.

There are several manuals included in the publications. The Funding for Scholarly Activity published from 1992 through 1993 includes information about funding available from the OVPR, the Rackham School of Graduate Studies and the University Council of International Academic Affairs. Research and Scholarship Support Available from the Office of the Vice President for Research published in 1986 has similar information from the OVPR only. The 1982 and 1987 Intellectual Property Manual define intellectual property and describe the university's policy, procedures, and the inventor's responsibilities to the university as does the related 1978 Patent Manual. University of Michigan Research and Development Resources: A Guide for Businesses published in 1993, serves as a ready reference guide to the resources that the university can offer small businesses including special conferences, economic development advice, affiliate programs and partnerships, and placement offices and co-op education programs. Newsletters such as the single issue of OVPR Newsletter give the latest news in the vice president's office in 1991 and the OVPR Bulletin dating from 1994 to 1996 describe not only what is going on in the area of research at the university, but also how Homer Neal, Vice President for Research, saw issues in the area of research, such as integrity of scholarship, financial conflicts of interest, accountability, and federal funding. The policy statements include an Interim Policy Statement on The Integrity of Scholarship and Investigating Allegations of Misconduct in the Pursuit of Scholarship and Research published in 1986, under the leadership of Linda Wilson, to encourage "ethical practices in scholarship." In 1993 Vice President Homer Neal issued a Policy and Program Update for Primary Research Staff. This update pulled policy statements, from the Board of Regents Bylaws, the Standard Practice Guide, the Affirmative Action Office, the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program, and the Family Care Resources Office, together in one place as a ready-reference for primary researchers on campus.

The reports include a 1972 report Indirect Costs of Research, from the Office of the Vice President for Research at the request of the Commission of Resource Allocation to clarify the policies and procedures governing reimbursement of indirect costs to the university. In 1986 the Technology Transfer at the University of Michigan: Reality from Vision; the Plan that is Working was released. This report discusses the work of the Intellectual Property Office. Environmental and Hazardous Substances Research, published in 1990, describes research by the Michigan Universities Consortium for Hazardous Waste Management. This consortium of researchers from the University of Michigan and Michigan State University focused on the multidisciplinary activities needed to conduct research on the complex hazardous substances problems in the state. The report includes a directory of researchers, their research projects, and funding sources, bulletins describing graduate programs, and a breakdown of research funding.

Unit Publications include brochures and manuals created by the Univerrsity Human Resources and its predecessors to assist employees in making decisions regarding health care, disability, and retirement. A variety of reports are also included, among them a 1997 self-assessment which explains how the various offices merged under the broader Office of University Human Resources.

Although produced by a number of differently titled organizations within and outside of the unit, the statistical resources included here contain salary and staffing figures and tables. The key publication is the annually published Analysis of Salaries Paid to the Instructional Staff. Based on fall term data, this publication analyzes current salaries of the university's instructional staff by department and within the department by rank. The analysis is complete from 1960 to the present. Beginning with the 1989 - 1990 academic year graduate teaching assistants were included. The analysis lists the number of persons at each rank or level with mean, median, minimum and maximum salaries and their average age. The survey also incorporates the Dearborn and Flint campuses in its analysis. The Office of Faculty and Staff Statistics also publishes Comparative Instructional Salary Data, which compares the salaries of the university's academic departments with those of other universities around the country. This publication is a compilation of data extracted from the Big 10 and AAU data exchanges and surveys conducted by Oklahoma State University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The data is based on the fall term and an academic (nine-month) year.

Unit Publications include annual reports, bulletins (course catalogs), directories and several newsletters, among which is New Edition. The directory, Who's Here, is continued in the Information and Library Studies Student Association (ILSSA) publications record group. The series Library Science Studies will be found under the heading "Reports".

The series contains a digital copy of the 2012 Program Presentation to the American Library Association Office for Accreditation.

The Unit Publications series (13 linear feet, 49.6 MB) contains addresses, annual reports, bulletins, brochures, directories, faculty bibliographies, newsletters, reports, yearbooks, and other materials published by the Ross School of Business.

The Unit Publications series contains printed and digital material published specifically by the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. These publications are defined as being widely distributed and may be published at regular intervals. They are arranged by genre of the publication.

The Unit Publications series (8.4 linear feet and 1.48GB (online)) includes addresses, annual reports, bibliographies, brochures, bulletins (course catalogs), by-laws, calendars, catalogs, directories, manuals, newsletters, proceedings, programs, regulations, reports, and related material.

The annual reports cover the period from 1933 to 1998, with the bulk documenting the period from 1977 to 1998. They briefly describe the activities of the college and list donors to the college's programs. For earlier annual reports, the researcher should consult the President's Report (call no. Fimu, B3), published from 1853 to 1984. The brochures describe some of the special offerings of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, including collegiate seminars, first year seminars, special foreign language offerings, general studies, and various theme semesters.

The bulletins or college catalogs (2.4 linear feet) describe the admissions requirements, course offerings (but not descriptions), degree requirements, facilities, and history of the college. The print version of the bulletin, from 1871 to 2012, is the authoritative source of admissions information, course offerings, and degree requirements. Under the heading "catalogs," the researcher will find about 1 linear foot of course descriptions under the titles LSA Course Guide documenting the period from 1976 to 1998, and the LS&A Brief Course Guide covering the period from 2001 to 2002. These titles also contain information about prerequisites.

In the manuals subseries there are handbooks for first year students. These volumes include an alphabetical listing, by department, of detailed course descriptions, even noting differences between the various sections offered. Distribution information (Social Sciences, Humanities, etc.), prerequisites, credits, and instructors are also identified. These handbooks also contain information about LS&A degree requirements, a directory of academic advising and counseling services, advice on distribution requirements, selecting an advisor, concentration course information, in addition to book costs and special fees associated with the course. They are found under various titles such as the:

Freshman Course Guide, 1988

First Year Handbook and Freshman Fall Course Guide, 1988-1994

First Year Handbook, 1994 to 2007

In 1997, the course information was broken out of the First Year Handbook into a separate publication entitled the First Year Course Guide.

In this subseries, researchers will also find handbooks for the faculty, international students, parents, and transfer students. The Handbook for LSA Instructional Staff was compiled in 1981 from the Faculty Code, the governing document created by the LS&A faculty. The Information and Regulations Governing the Conduct of Undergraduate Courses, published in 1962 and 1967, was to provide the teaching staff with a readily accessible list of the policies and procedures governing the conduct of LS&A courses. The International Student Handbook contains information to help ease the transition for incoming, non-American students. There is information on LS&A advising resources, academic resources, learning communities, academic conduct, international student associations, and helpful hints for living far from home for the first time. The Parent Handbook includes similar information with hints for how parents can help their student succeed at the University of Michigan. The library holds this publication from 1997 to 2002 and 2004 to 2006. In later years this publication became the LSA Guide for Parents and is available as well in the sub series. The Transfer Student Handbook discusses LS&A advising, but concentrates on the transfer of credits from other academic institutions and planning for the students' academic career at Michigan.

The LSA Distribution Book, in conjunction with the Bulletin, is designed to help students select courses outside of their concentration area in the categories of Humanities, Natural Science, and Social Sciences. By selecting courses not in their concentration or cognate fields, they are broadening their intellectual horizons and interests, which is a goal of a University of Michigan education. The LSA Distribution Book lists various courses, arranged alphabetically by department, with brief descriptions and explains how these courses can be used to fulfill distribution requirements. The library holds this publication from 1989 to 1992.

The newsletters subseries contains several titles, including Diagonalia, LSA Checkpoint, LSA Magazine, and the LSA Student Academic Affairs Newsletter. The Diagonalia, published from 1971 to 1975, provides much information about what was going on in the dean's office and the various departments in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. It describes new courses being offered, programs being developed, and long-range planning. There are also articles by faculty members on topics such as creativity or liberal arts education. The LSA Checkpoint published from 1974 to 1996, and its successor LSA Student Academic Affairs Newsletter issued from 1996 to 1998, were originally published monthly during the academic year and later three to four times a year. These newsletters discuss summer orientation, registration, new courses, mini-courses, and graduation and counseling information. The library does not hold a complete run of these publications. The LSA Magazine, documents the activities of the various administrators, faculty, staff, students, and alumni of the college. Published twice a year as of 2021, the Bentley Historical Library holds a nearly complete run of this publication. The library also provides access to digital copies of most of the LSA Magazine issues published between 2007 and 2017.

There are three small commencement programs, from 1992 through 1994, included in this series. A better source for commencement information, including lists of graduates, will be found in the University of Michigan. Chief Marshall records (call no. 8753 Bimu E3 2), documenting the period from 1914 to the present.