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Large group of files containing documentation on courses taught by Sears chiefly at the University of South Carolina and Penn State. Course topics include sexual identity, teaching and the creation of "sex ed" curricula, and political movements. Files include correspondence, syllabi, notes, lectures, comments and evaluations by students, proposals for courses or programs, and other files. One group of folders deals with a controversial course taught on the Religious Right. Also contains materials relating to Sears' teaching activities as a faculty member at the University of South Carolina and College of Charleston. Arranged in order received, roughly chronological.

Mainly correspondence and documents gathered by Sears through his participation at the University of South Carolina on various academic committees and working groups. Arranged in order as received.

Correspondence and other documents derived from Sear's work with various tenure committees and working groups. Arranged in order as received.

Arranged in the following groups: Brackenridge Internship in Teaching; Consulting; Department Files; and Closed Academic Files, which are closed to research until five years after the donor's death.

Files organized into sections of correspondence, drafts and proofs, interviews, and research files. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically; drafts and proofs in order received. Interviews comprise three boxes: the first two contain complete interviews and interview notes, and are arranged by first name and case number as assigned by Sears. Research files include a set of folders (mostly but not all contiguous and marked "QSL") housing materials related to Sears' paper, Attitudes, Experiences, and Feelings of Guidance Counselors in Working with Homosexual Students: A Report on the Quality of School Life for Southern Gay and Lesbian Students (1988), which formed the basis for the book. The early research for this paper was in part supported by the Gay and Lesbian Advocacy Research Project (GLARP), whose name appears on many folders. The third box contains what seem to be aggregates of these interviews, and are arranged according to case number. Audio recordings on cassette are also available for many interviews; these are housed in the Audiovisual Series.