Series consists of records made or received by the Director of the Professional Programs division of the Faculty of Education in the course of administering the program area.

Activities documented include policy development, budget planning, and staffing, including the hiring and orientation of school and faculty associates (professionals from the BC school system seconded to assist in the delivery of the PDP program); curriculum and program planning, including First Nations education, French immersion, and decentralization of SFU's PDP program; conferences, colloquia, liaison with school districts, and administration of external PDP sites; liaison with faculty task forces and committees, other units in the faculty, other SFU departments, other universities, provincial government ministries and agencies, and educational and professional associations; and student relations, advising, and post-graduation employment.

Records include correspondence, reports, proposals, statistics, program information, orientation packages and handbooks, lists of faculty associates, policies and procedures, event schedules, notes and working papers, and printed reference material.

For a list of organizations included in the correspondence, see the "Access points" section below.