Sarah Harder was a professor of English and an administrator from 1970 to 2000 at the University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire. She served on various committees concerning Affirmative Action, Title IX, the status of women, and underrepresented students, and helped establish the Women’s Studies program at UW-Eau Claire. The collection includes biographical and administrative files, publications, women’s issues in higher education, and records of women’s programs and events.

Records of the UW-Eau Claire Academic Staff Committee, consisting of meeting minutes, correspondence, committee reports, governing documents, and subject files documenting the governance of academic staff at UW—Eau Claire, and the review of academic staff positions and salaries on both the UW—Eau Claire campus and the UW-System at large. The Academic Staff Committee was absorbed into the Faculty Senate, creating a combined University Senate, in 1987.