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The Women's Center records document the development and history of the Women's Center, known originally as the Women's Resource Center and today as CARE (Center for Advocacy, Response, and Education). The materials are divided into administrative records, Campaigns for Nonviolence (CNV), Proactive Educators for the Elimination of Sexual violence (PEERS), Wildcats Against Rape (WAR), photographs, artifacts, and posters.

The administrative records includes the history of the Women's Center, class resources, conferences (including one conference titled "Coming Out Day Conference" for the LGBT community), correspondence, handouts, office policies and procedures, newsletters, presentations, reports, workshops for women, the young women's project, four booklets empowering women to become leaders, and one CD with a note that reads "Future Music Possibilities." Class resources are Modules 1–6 in printed form and Modules 1–7 on a Zip disk, which were used in the "Students in Oral Communication I & IA: Speaking of Issues Relating to Women...and Men" class. The young women's project includes information on body image, eating disorders, dating, clothes, grades, and peer pressure.  A special project of the Women's Center was the Empty Bowls Project to raise funds and awareness in the fight to end hunger.

CNV materials include documentation of rallies and campaigns, history, speakers' information, campaigns and seminars, publicity, brochures, newspaper articles, one Beta video recording (Campaign for Nonviolence, July 2004), eleven CDs of photographs and information pertaining to the seasons for nonviolence, one audiocassette (CNV Rally 2001 that aired on radio station 580AM), and records pertaining to a program called "SafeZone."

PEERS records describe educational offerings about sexual violence, dating violence, domestic violence, stalking, and sexual harassment for women and men. Other materials include the book "Replacing Skeleton Key Thinking With Common Sense and Awareness" by Peggy Gene and Jennifer Schmidt, published by the The Stephanie Schmidt Foundation.

WAR records include documentation of activities such as pub crawls, run against rape, season for nonviolence city park dog walk, take back the day, and the date safe project. Other records include photographic prints, digital photographs, and advertising.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation Forensic Laboratory Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kit is the only artifact in this collection.

Forty posters document the Center's efforts to educate students and community members and encourage them to participate in reducing the problem of sexual violence on campus, in the community, and in the African Congo. Examples include "Can I Buy You a Drink?," "The Art of Rape," "Force is Never Friendly," "Take Back the Night," "Preventing Violence Against Women on Campus," "Contemplate Act, Walk the Paths of Peace, Moonlight Walk on the Konza Prairie," "Walk the Paths of Peace, A Season for Nonviolence, Wildcats Against Rape presents reading from Purple Cried," "Purple Cried, K-State Students' Stories of Assault," and "Campaign for Nonviolence, 64 Ways to Practice Nonviolence."

This collection cointains information about the Kansans for ERA organziation, their organizational issues, and organizational documents.

Audio reels of Dean Doretta Hoffman "100 years," the tune for stepping down from Deanship, and commentary on the college.

Staff and faculty portraits, photos (negatives and copy sheets) of fire damage, class composites (1974-1998), surgery, yearbook, symposium, miscellaneous photos.

Staff and faculty portraits, photos (negatives and copy sheets) of fire damage, class composites (1974-1998), surgery, yearbook, symposium, miscellaneous photos.

A vinyl record for the "How we Create an Image" presentation by the American Home Economics Association (AHEA) and the accompanying filmstrip. Slides, in a carousel slide tray, for the "Dimensions in Home Economics" presentation. Carousel slide tray with slides for the "Winds of Change" family forum. Slides from the "Founders of the Future" presentation by the AHEA. AHEA slide series of "Facts About a Very Important Profession." Kansas Home Economics Association video tapes of interviews and "Making it in a Women's World." Video tape of "Women in Higher Education."

These materials were citations and supporting material that Duane Acker used while writing a book about his time as the president of Kansas State University, titled Two at a Time.  Most of the materials are photocopies of correspondence, speeches, reports, notes, and clippings.

Films catalogue, budgets, auxiliary bulletin material, Veterinary Medicine handbook certifications and bylaws, newspaper articles, reports, brochures, fundraiser information.

Files pertaining to Academic outreach from high schools in surrounding areas. Along with course approval requests of courses offered through non-traditional studies.

Photographic negatives of Veterinary Medicine faculty, staff, students, magazines, housing, and housing maintenance.

Contains documents on food, ag., dairy, grain, and wheat stocks and policy. Also contains documents on land, forest, and federal resources. Lastly contains documents on marketing programs/proposals, and ag. economic reports.

These photos were taken during Pat O'Brien's travels to Europe, North America, and South America and thus are mostly made up of features of the cities that she found noteworthy, as well as sites of particular anthropological or archeological interest. The majority of the images were taken in Europe, especially Germany and Italy. There are also a significant number of photos of England and France. Some of these images were compiled into photo presentations, which are also represented in this series, along with the photographs.

The photos feature buildings (especially churches, historical structures, and museums), streets, statues, fountains, graves, pottery, art, artifacts, ruins, waterfronts, tourist locations, festivals, wide shots of cities, landscapes, and sites of anthropological, archeological, and geological interest.

Kansas State University Veterinary Medicine photo album (students, staff and newsletters), auxiliary to the American Veterinary Medical Association for students on the honor roll (photographs and certificates), Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Association auxiliary (1976-1980. 3 scrapbooks dated 1976-1977, 1978-79, and 1979-1980. Newsletters, photographs, records), KSU Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Association A Year in the Life of the Student Wives scrapbook (1977-1978).

This subseries, which is easily the largest of the digital photo subseries, is composed of photos from Pat O'Brien's travels in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and Wales. There are also some photos whose locations have not been positively identified, but they appear to have been taken in one of the aforementioned countries. The years listed on some of the photos are 1976, 1987, 1988, 1994, 1995, 1999, and 2007. There are photos of streets, buildings (especially churches, museums, and government buildings), statues, graves, art and artifacts, ruins, waterfronts, wide shots of cities, landscapes, and sites of anthropological, archeological, and geological interest.

The Administrative series contains 3 boxes ranging from 1967-1992. It consists of correspondence, reports, and handbooks that pertain to faculty. Some reports represented in this series are the Mercer Report and a Distance Education report. This series also includes office files from Jerry Freiman, who was a past Faculty Senate President.

Kansas State University Veterinary Medicine photo album (students, staff and newsletters), auxiliary to the American Veterinary Medical Association for students on the honor roll (photographs and certificates), Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Association auxiliary (1976-1980. 3 scrapbooks dated 1976-1977, 1978-79, and 1979-1980. Newsletters, photographs, records), KSU Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Association A Year in the Life of the Student Wives scrapbook (1977-1978).

Photographic negatives of Veterinary Medicine faculty, students, class pictures candids, buildings and construction, June Conference, surgery, intramurals, labs, open house, parties, sports, and graduation.

Kathleen Ward was a Communication Specialist for Research and Extension at Kansas State University. She has been a longtime writer for Kansas State University. Ward's collection consists of copies of articles and local newspapers clippings dated from the late 1970s to 2010. Among other things, the collection includes multiple local publications on wild animal trapping.