Subseries 1A: General, 1967-1987, includes just two folders containing material that could not be accurately filed in another subseries. The first folder consists of miscellaneous records pertaining to academic planning, advisory councils, and academics in general. The second collects material about the remote teaching (VERB) program.

Subseries 1B: Chairmanships, 1971-1987, is almost exclusively about the selection of new department chairs and is organized by department. Department chairs were generally appointed for five-year terms and were selected by the president and the dean of the faculty on the advice of the members of the department. Much of this material consists of frank and often critical memoranda written by faculty members to the president assessing the past service and future potential of their colleagues as department chairs. These appraisals variously consider scholarship, teaching, management, personality, and department politics.

Subseries 1C: Computing, 1983-1984, includes materials relating to computer services at Princeton-especially records from the ad hoc committee on computing, which first established goals of computer literacy and access for the Princeton community in 1983 and 1984.

Subseries 1D: Continuing Education, 1972-1985, documents the continuing education program at Princeton. Assistant to the President Dr. Mary Bunting had special responsibility for the programs while she worked in the president's office from 1972-1974, and most of the material in this subseries is addressed to and from her. In a 1973 memorandum, she lists the following as subsets of Princeton's continuing education program: the Princeton University Conference, the VERB Program, the Mid-Career Program, the Engineering School Short Courses, and the Alumni College.

Subseries 1E: Departments, 1966-1987, contains most of the correspondence with faculty, students, and others relating to specific academic departments, and is arranged by department. Topics include faculty recruiting, appointments, and retention negotiations; student complaints; space limitations and renovation plans; the confidential and public reports of department chairs; and discussions related to resolving departmental disputes. The content of this subseries is similar to that of Subseries 1H and 1I, although information regarding the consideration and appointment of faculty for department chair positions is located in Subseries 1B.

Subseries 1F: Professorships, Preceptorships, and Fellowships, 1972-1987, consists of records regarding the establishment and assignment of endowed professorships, preceptorships, and fellowships. Topics in the general section of the subseries include name designations, the assignment of chairholders, and proposals for chairs in various disciplines. Specific professorship, preceptorship, and fellowship files consist of correspondence with donors, summaries of the chairholders and their accomplishments, press releases regarding the establishment and assignment of the endowed chairs, and memoranda concerning these assignments.

Subseries 1G: Reserve Officer Training Corps, 1970-1987, contains the president's records on the military science department at Princeton and the ROTC program. The subseries includes Bowen's notes used at the open forum on ROTC and the report of the ad hoc committee on ROTC issued in 1972 (in the folder labeled "Open Forum Material"). Also included are the yearly reports of the advisory committee on ROTC regarding the Army program on campus and the Air Force program at Rutgers.

Subseries 1H: Schools, 1970-1987, the largest subseries, contains memoranda and correspondence with faculty, students, and others relating to the schools at Princeton: the School of Architecture, the School of Engineering, the Graduate School, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. The content of this subseries is similar to that of Subseries 1E and 1I.

Subseries 1I: Special Programs, 1972-1987, contains memoranda and correspondence with faculty, students, and others related to the special programs at Princeton. Special programs are academic units that operate independently of departments and schools, although their faculties are often drawn from them. Special programs at Princeton included Afro-American studies, the Council of the Humanities, the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, and the visual arts program. The content of this subseries is similar to that of subseries 1E and 1H.