The Iowa State University Department of Industrial Administration was established in 1955, with William H. Schrampfer named as Head. The Department had previously been known as Industrial Economics, a sub-discipline in the Department of Economics and Sociology. In 1955, the Department of Industrial Administration included 299 business majors and eleven faculty. By 1968, when William H. Thompson was named department head, the department had grown to 715 business students and seventeen faculty. Industrial Administration continued to grow, and by 1975, it included 1,340 business majors, under the leadership of department chair Lynn Loudenback.

The Industrial Administration Department offered undergraduate programs for those interested in business-oriented positions in industry and government. Students were required to complete a number of general business courses, then select a specialty in one of the following areas: accounting, finance, general business, management, marketing, or transportation-physical distribution. In 1980 the Department changed its name to the School of Business Administration, and is currently known as the College of Business.

This collection contains materials related to faculty meetings and committee meetings after 1967 for the Department of Industrial Administration, including the Scholarship and Awards Committee, the Advising Committee, and the Curriculum Committee.

The collection is arranged chronologically.