The Arkansas State University Board of Trustees Records primarily consists of minutes and supporting documents from meetings held by the university’s board members. Supporting documents include resolutions adopted by the board, statements, estimates for building constructions and repairs, faculty and staff hires, resignations, and promotions, tuition fees, educational programs being offered, and correspondence.

While the collection contains predominantly general concerns of running a university, there are also several documents that show the evolution and struggles of the college from its inception, through the Second World War. Documents include PWA projects, correspondence to and from Hattie Caraway, the use of Arkansas State College as a military training facility, as well as a variety of other topics. There are also brief mentions of interned Japanese-Americans and the German prisoner of war camp located in Jonesboro.

Materials between May 1923 and January 1931 are not present. Many of these records may have been destroyed when the administrative building caught fire in 1931.