The collection includes correspondence, pamphlets, flyers, newspapers, catalogs, and ephemera representing educational reform and alternative education in its widest possible form. The materials appear to have been collected and organized as part of the Free University, an alternative educational entity based at MSU in the late 1960s and as part of a course, Interdepartmental University College 300, entitled "Educational Reform" and offered in 1970. There are also materials related to progressive/radical politics, feminism, environment, co-ops/communes, and radio/television. The majority of materials are from the Lansing/East Lansing/MSU area, although some are from California, Ann Arbor, and elsewhere.