Academic information consists of correspondence, brochures, and materials from extension efforts and faculty conference participation. The bulk of the series is correspondence among North Carolina State University College of Textiles faculty, staff, and administrators relating to the operations of the school, including course scheduling, budgets, and research. The files included the correspondence of Dean David W. Chaney, Associate Dean Dame S. Hamby, and Extension Specialist Horace W. Wilson. Of notable mention is documentation regarding the first experimental off-campus courses taught via television. This series also includes Textiles College brochures and catalogs dating from 1908 to 1984, college research reports, and a high school textile program survey and evaluation conducted by Wilson.

Series 2. Budget, 1964 - 1978 is CLOSED until further notice.

Material includes monthly and year-to-date budget and expenditure reports. Reports contain documentation of salaries, travel, equipment, and other overhead expenses for basic textiles research, education, and extension. Monthly and year-to-date budget reports are also available for the North Carolina Textiles Foundation, including extension and recruiting, as well as noise control and Fort Bragg programs. Information on the College's payroll budget, salary assignments and adjustments, and payroll changes are included. Personnel summaries describe positions and responsibilites, and individual faculty research budgets. Also included are faculty and temporary employee appointment letters and documentation of financial aid recipients.

The Textiles Extension Correspondence series consists of correspondence to and from textile industry representatives regarding applied research requests and instructional services provided by the College of Textiles. Noteworthly correspondents include Burlington, Cannon, Cotton Incorporated, Dow, Dupont, Johnson and Johnson, Monsanto, and a number of southeastern textile mills. Much of the correspondence concerns visits to the college, as well as the development of credit courses and short-course training programs, including the Textiles Off-campus Televised Education (TOTE) program. Press releases, news articles, and other information are included in most company profiles. A small file includes research findings on byssinosis (brown lung disease). Nominations for and other information on the Cannon and Harrelson Professorships is included. A couple fabric samples can be found in the collection accompanied by requests for fabric analyses or other research. Correspondence between Dame S. Hamby and Governor James B. Hunt concerns the future of the textile economy in North Carolina. And several photographs are scattered throughout the series, including head and shoulder shots of Dean Chaney, and textile executives and researchers on a tours of Albany Felt Company and the Millikin textile plant.