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The Faculty Association Records document the organizational, administrative, and advocacy activities of the South Dakota State College (later South Dakota State University) Faculty Association from its founding in 1946 until its dissolution in 1972. The collection includes constitutions and by-laws, minutes, correspondence (primarily from or to the association's acting head), and committee records.

The records reflect the association’s advisory role and its efforts to address faculty-related concerns including appointment, rank and promotion, tenure, salary studies, insurance, retirement, sabbatical leave, travel expenses, outside activities, and faculty honors. Committees played a central role in the association’s work, and while their names evolved over time, they consistently focused on faculty welfare and institutional policy input. Also included are materials related to the selection of a college president, evaluation of public higher education in South Dakota, and membership and financial records. The bulk of the collection spans the years 1952 to 1960, with some earlier and later documents included for continuity.

This collection is significant for understanding faculty governance, institutional change, and the professional concerns of academic staff during the mid-20th century at South Dakota State.

The Nels Granholm Papers consist of correspondence, notebooks, course materials, conference files, research documentation, organizational records, grant files, presentations, project materials, travel documentation, writings, photographs, electronic media, and general professional files. Notebooks include professionally maintained diaries, calendars, and reading and event notes, each numbered by the donor and containing a table of contents. Conference materials document meetings attended or participated in, including programs, schedules, proceedings, and session notes. Correspondence includes letters and emails arranged chronologically and alphabetically. Course materials reflect teaching in Biology, Microbiology, Botany, Zoology, Honors courses, and Global Studies, with a concentration on Bioethics and Global Studies I and II and materials from an Honors Colloquium. Files related to the Global Studies Program document program administration, planning, internships, majors, and conferences. Additional series document research grants, sabbatical activity and exchanges at Manchester Metropolitan University, participation in professional organizations, lectures and presentations, collaborative and individual projects, research topics, service and committee work at South Dakota State University, domestic and international travel, faculty exchange activity at the University of Winnipeg, scholarly writings, and general professional and retirement-related materials.

The collection documents of faculty life, interdisciplinary teaching, and international academic exchange at South Dakota State University during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It is significant for understanding the development of Global Studies and bioethics instruction at SDSU, faculty engagement in professional organizations, and the role of international collaboration in university teaching and research. Granholm’s extensive notebooks and travel documentation offer sustained evidence of scholarly practice, intellectual networks, and institutional service within a land grant university context.