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The Consumer Federation of America records document the association's development from 1967 to 2017 through testimonies, newsletters, reports, statements, correspondence, press releases, pamphlets, policy resolutions, and audiotapes. The collection contains minutes from the CFA board of directors meetings, CFA policy resolutions and CFA annual reports (1980–2016). Other reports, statements, and surveys provide coverage of issues investigated, policies advanced, and materials developed to educate the public and media. Areas addressed include consumer safety, financial advancement and protection, consumer knowledge, post-9/11 terrorism insurance and safety, and product safety in general and specifically product safety in children's products and automobiles.

Of special interest is correspondence documenting interactions with prominent political figures including Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Bob Dole. Also noteworthy are pamphlets from the association’s annual Consumer Assembly (1980–2015) and pamphlets developed for the CFA project America Saves. A set of audiotapes (2000–2003) offers insight into CFA conferences that tackled issues including food safety, obesity, and bioterrorism. Reports document court cases and petitions. The collection contains the association's voting records (1971–2008).

CFAnews and Consumer Federation of America annual reports are available online. See Series 8 for online access to annual reports and series 9 for online access to CFAnews. Series 12 provides access to archives of CFA's website from 2007 to 2023.

David Dary donated his collection of personal papers to the Morse Department of Archives and Special Collections in 2011. The papers span the years 1856 to 2017 and are housed in 123 boxes. The collection spans a total of 16 series: Family, Education, Short Wave Radio, Broadcast Journalism Career, Higher Education Career, Correspondence, Dary Files, Business Records, Speeches, Publication Files, Certificates/Awards, Ephemera, Printed Material, Photographs, Audio/Visual, and Oversize. Processing was originally completed in 2014, resulting in 103 boxes. New material was received by the Morse Department of Archives and Special Collections in 2024 and was processed afterward. The extent now totals 123 boxes. The dates covered by the collection are approximately 1833-2017.

Pat J. Bosco worked as vice president for student life and dean of students at K-State, initially starting his career at the university as director of student activities. Under his former title, Bosco worked on everything related to students, including admissions, career and employment services, housing and dining, student crisis, parent and family programming, and student financial assistance. Due to this, within this collection is an eclectic assortment of various materials that fall under the grand umbrella of his job title. The majority of content is categorized under "correspondence," due to the larger scope of his work, much of this correspondence is interdisciplinary and interdepartmental. Besides the generalized correspondence, the rest of the collection is sorted into All-University Open Houses, Enrollment Management, Student Life Administration, and Workshops. The collection covers from 1986-2003. However, the bulk of correspondence lies between 1986-1989 and 2000-2003. Additionally, the Workshops included also include later years not found in the rest of the collection, ranging up to 2017. K-State Decathlon folder added to box 7.

These records document the work of the Dean of the College of Agriculture's office. Included are building program files, reports, project files, a large amount of student graduate books, departmental planning and operation records, Deans Council records, and faculty descriptions.

This collection contains files relating to the KSU College of Engineering, auxiliary organizations and projects, personal information, and memorabilia and physical media.

The College of Engineering files include agendas, minutes, memoranda, notes, slides, correspondence, newsletters, pamphlets, publications, reference material, depositions, speech scripts, proposals, evaluations, surveys, reports, budget and cost analysis, blueprints, photographs, maps, KSU magazines and newspapers (the K-State Engineer, the K-Stater, Kansas Technical Professions), and booklets. These materials pertain to meetings (department meetings, committee meetings, council meetings, club meetings, alumni meetings), events (open house events, commencement, talks, banquets, luncheons, career fairs, Engineering Day), programs and classes, scholarships (including donation records and recipient letters of gratitude). There are also records related to Kansas State University Foundation, the Mid-America State Universities Association (MASUA), and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC).

The auxiliary organizations and projects files include correspondence, newsletters, certificates, photos, blueprints, maps, speech scripts, proposals, reports, minutes, agendas, notes, publications, booklets, newspapers, slides, nomination forms, legislative materials, budget and cost analysis, and files related to fundraising and profits. The organizations and projects in question are the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), the National Society of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES), the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc (ABET), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), the Order of the Engineer, the Kansas Engineering Society (KES) Task Force, Great Achievement Task Force, National Youth Science Camp, Integrated Circuit Electronics Corporation Inc. (ICE), the Kansas Entrepreneurial Center Advisory Board, the Kansas State Board of Technical Professions, the National Institute for Land Management and Training, the Land Management Training Center (Fort Riley), KS Army National Guard, Institute for American Liberty, Freedom Oil and Gas Co., the Kansas Power and Light Company, the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, and the Manhattan Rotary Club, the Rotary Leadership Institute, Phi Kappa Phi, Kemper Military School, the University of Pittsburgh Department of Electrical Engineering, Allen County Community College, Clay Center High School, Baldwin High School, the Delphinium Society, the Royal Horticultural Society, the Jazz Advisory Committee, the Picture Lady Program, the Wrestling House Project, the Manhattan Community Foundation, Manhattan City Planning Board, Retire to the Flint Hills Committee, the Colbert Hills Golf Course, the Sunset Cemetery Paslay Singing Tower, and the First Presbyterian Church.

The personal records relate to the personal life of Don Rathbone and his family. The materials include correspondence, photos, certificates, newspapers, and slides pertaining to holidays, recreational organizations, retirement, and Rathbone family funerals (namely Lynne Rathbone, Gladys Rathbone, Fay Rathbone, Wally Rathbone, and Ken Rathbone).

The memorabilia and physical media relate to both Rathbone’s personal and professional life. The materials include books (including In My Words: The Oral History Project as told by Perdue History, alumni directory books, fact books, and other KSU and engineering-related publications), booklets, photos, photo albums, certificates, maps, blueprints, plaques, awards, high school and college yearbooks, calendars, planners, appointment books, log books, address books, business card files, a Rolodex with contact information, signed volleyballs, a deck of playing cards, a Transcriber Company diamond needle, a Pickering Stereo Fluxvalve Cartridge for automatic turntables, engineering-related tools (a Hemmi Slide Rule with Don E. Rathbone’s name engraved on it inside a leather case, a Type Ceramic Capacitor Rule, a Pocket Metric Converter, and a Motor Data Calculator), VHS tapes, DVDs, floppy discs, cassette tapes, magnetic audio tapes, polaroid slides, a flash drive, and an unlabeled film reel.

These records document the Alpha Rho chapter of Epsilon Sigma Phi, national extension honor society, at Kansas State University from 1930 to 2016. Types of material include programs, constitutions, newsletters, chapter history, minutes, financial information, membership listings, autobiographies, scrapbooks, and photographic materials. Some records from the 1990s are in digital format.

The general purpose of the Faculty Senate within Kansas State University is to facilitate faculty participation in the establishment of university policies and in the formulation of procedures for their interpretation. For the policies to remain useful they are delegated to sub-committees established by the Faculty Senate, responsible for a certain set of procedures and policies and filtering it from the Senate to the faculty. The Faculty Senate Records collection contains minutes and agendas from most of these committees. Along with minutes and agendas, this collection contains course and curriculum changes from proposed or already existing courses. Lastly it also contains general office files from Faculty Senate and from prior Faculty Senate President, Jerry Freiman.

These records document the Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance—often shortened to Great Plains IDEA—a collaboration of about twenty universities in the Plains region. Based out of Kansas State University, the group provides fully online graduate programs across several universities. Materials range from 1994 to 2015 and include meeting minutes, itineraries, board member information, education initiatives, and annual meeting information.

Additionally, there are web archives from 2001 to 2024. The current site, www.idea.edu, has been crawled since September 2024, and the previous site, www.gpidea.org, was saved by the Wayback Machine 398 times between September 25, 2001, and July 21, 2024. Web archives available at https://wayback.archive-it.org/5564/*/https://www.idea.edu/ and https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/www.gpidea.org.

These newsletters are from academic and other offices and units at Kansas State University. Topics typically will relate to department information, personnel updates, and similar subjects.

Records included in this accrual are corporate board minutes, licensing agreements, product stories, event photographs, corporate documents, news paper clippings, VHS Tapes, DVDs, Patented Products