Records of the University Graduate Council consist of meeting minutes which provide a history of graduate programs Michigan State University, a topical index to the Council minutes, an index to correspondence providing names and graduation dates of degree recipients, and four editions of "Graduate Students' Rights and Responsibilities." Annual reports are also included in the collection.

This collection consists of the minutes, agendas, memos, and other information from the meetings of the Steering Committee of the Academic Council between 1981 and 1986. The items were removed from a binder and placed in folders in the same order they were removed.