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The Teaching and Other Speaking Engagements series documents Castagnacci's career as an instructor at Old Dominion University (from 1967 to 1972) and at the University of Michigan's School of Art & Design (from 1973 until his retirement in 2008). The series consists of lecture notes, readings, and course handouts that span four decades of Castagnacci's career as an educator and which are complemented by video footage of his classroom instruction at the University of Michigan's School of Art & Design in 2004 and fall 2007 (his final semester of teaching). Additional departmental assignments (including work on the Basic Studio committee) and his appointment as an Arthur F. Thurnau Distinguished Professor are documented as well. The series also includes video from the 1995 Mondrian Symposium held at U of M's Chrysler Auditorium that document panelists (including Castagnacci) delivering lectures, a performance of a Mondrian-inspired dance piece, and a reconstruction of Mondrian's final studio in New York.

The Teaching-Learning Communities Records series (1971-2012, 5.5 linear feet plus one oversize box and one oversize folder) consists of materials related to the T-LC program created by Tice and others. This includes administrative materials such as budgets, planning and volunteer records as well as correspondence. Additionally are event records from a visit by Margaret Mead and a concert by Eva Jessye, as well as curricular materials created by T-LC and Lifespan Resources, Inc. such as guidebooks, training materials, and worksheets used by volunteers and teachers. Finally some student work is included along and informational materials such as photographs of students and volunteers, newspaper clippings about T-LC, brochures, posters, and scrapbooks.

The Titus Vespatian Hoisington series contains research, notes, clippings and exhibit documents about the creation of a memorial for Titus Vespatian Hoisington, a veteran of the American Revolution who died in Michigan.

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.