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Includes annual reports of the Council to the University Council, drafts of some of these reports (so one can examine the evolution of the document), reports sent to the General Board for Humanities Studies, and financial statements for the organization. Also includes a report from a conference held in 1926 that ultimately led to the creation of the Council. There is a gap in annual reports between 1957 and 1961 and no report for 1967.

Includes award and rejection letters, budgets, and lists of projects for particular years. Project correspondence from the 1929-1933 includes some project proposals in addition to award letters and budgetary information. Correspondence concerning projects #1-108, spanning the years 1958-1964, were taken out of individual project files and placed together in three files. For these documents, when necessary, the project number from the folder was written in brackets at the top of the document. Multiple documents from one project file, even if they span more than one year, have been kept together. Correspondence is primarily with the Secretary of the University and/or the Chair of the Council.

Series VI consists of teaching materials, grades and repots, and correspondences from courses in the Core Curriculum and on general East Asian Humanities. Sub-Series VI.1 includes materials on the Faculty Transcultural Workshop/Colloquium Workshop, Nobility and Civility workshops, Nature and Human Nature, and Classics for an Emerging World. Sub-Series VI.2 gathers materials from courses such as East Asian Humanities: Major Works, Oriental Civilizations (East Asian Civilizations), Introduction to Chinese Thought, Introduction to Japanese Thought, Sung-Ming Thought Seminars, etc. Organized by course title and chronologically, the materials provide great insights on the evolution of the course contents. Sub-Series VI.3 includes miscellaneous course and grading files. Sub-Series VI.4 gathers proposals and manuscripts from students, mostly at the PhD level. Additional exchanges with students may be identified in departmental files and in Series V: Correspondence.

Includes annual reports and financial statements, reports on Council guidelines and procedures, budget reports, Council Report to the University Council, reports from outside Councils, and sub- committee reports. The Council Report, or the Report on the Work of the Columbia University Council for Research in the Social Sciences, examines the mission and procedures of the Council, the sources and uses of its funding, successes and shortcomings of its program, and suggestions about its future direction. (Pettit)

Includes minutes and agendas. The minutes are the administrative files of the Council and consist of transcript carbon copies of minutes, reports, correspondence, project applications and reviews, and financial information. Council meetings reviewed and selected research proposals. Summaries of proposals are in the minutes themselves and copies of research proposals and project progress reports follow the minutes of the meeting in which the proposal or project is discussed. Many documents found in the minutes concerning a particular project are also to be found in the individual project file folder in this collection. Matters relating to project selection and administration were also addressed at the meetings and recorded or summarized in the Minutes, such as Council funding, formation of various standing, ad hoc and sub-committees, procedural matters of all kinds, publication of, and royalties from, project research, and numerous reports, such as progress reports, expense reports, annual reports, financial reports, standing committee reports, and reports to the University Council. (Milite)