Contains administrative files, including correspondence, surveys, programs, clippings, proposals, photographs, posters, newsletters, student assignments and exams, theses, and petitions. Materials date from between 1947 and 1967.

Contains G. Robert Ruff's materials on the establishment of a school of communications at Brigham Young University, dated 1942, and 1981 to 2001. Includes correspondence related to his assignment as a member of the advisory board for the BYU Department of Communications, clippings, various meeting minutes and notes, and studies and drafted proposals for the establishment of the school. Also contains materials on aircraft pilot training, dated 1942.

Materials are related to the graduate studies program of the Department of Communications from 1975 to 2000. Materials include reports, department reviews, and proposals.