The material is arranged alphabetically by institution: Columbia University, the New School for Social Research, Princeton University, and the State University of Iowa. (One box at the end of the series contains general lecture notes and grades from Keeley's early years teaching at Brown University (1952) and Princeton (late 1950s and early 1960s)). Columbia University material includes students' manuscripts, student questionnaires and Xeroxes of poetry for the translation workshop that Keeley taught there in 1981. The New School for Social Research material includes students' grades, a course proposal, correspondence, syllabi, and lists of students' names and addresses for a seminar that Keeley taught in 1980, called "Five Modern Greek Poets." Princeton University material consists of lecture notes, exams, outlines, reading and class lists, student papers, correspondence with faculty members, reports, academic calendars, computerized student grades, budget information, committee meeting minutes and memos, proposals, printed material, student evaluations, and syllabi, spanning the years 1952 to 1993. The material primarily reflects the wide range of courses Keeley taught at Princeton, as well as his administrative responsibilities in several of the programs, such as the Creative Arts Program, the Creative Writing Program (the evolution of the Creative Arts Program), the Hellenic Studies Program, the Humanistic Studies Program, and the Modern Greek Studies Program. The State University of Iowa material consists of final exam questions, a syllabus, and reading lists for a course Keeley taught there in 1963, called "Form and Theory of Fiction;" lists of students' names and copies of poetry to be translated in a translation workshop which he also taught that year; and students' manuscripts for a creative writing workshop taught in 1961 and 1962.

Additional faculty materials can be found in Series 10.