The José F. Treviño papers focus on his work as an employee of the Office of Supportive Services Developmental Program at Michigan State University, where he was an adviser to Chicano student organizations and a community activist advocating for substance abuse services to the Chicano and Latino community.The core of the papers in Box 1 include documents used for analysis of Chicano and other minority student performance and retention at MSU. The financial files are especially significant documentation for the Chicano student activism at MSU in the 1970s. Box 2 is a collection of materials related to his work to establish services to the Chicano community in need of substance abuse rehabilitative services.