Materials for this collection include the National mathematics awareness week celebrations at GWU (1990), schedules, brochures, flyers, articles, trustees' roll, questionnaire results, correspondence, press releases, and the Department of Mathematics website. They concern colloquia, seminars, the Mathematics Department, faculty information, areas of study, graduate programs, courses, and lectures. They range in date from 1990-2004.

The Mount Vernon Seminary was officially established by Elizabeth Somers in 1875 and a two year junior college was added in 1927. The Junior College remained open until 1969, when Mount Vernon College became a four-year unversity. The university was an independent institution until 1999, when it became affilated with The George Washington University.

This collection includes Mount Vernon Seminary, Junior College, and College course write ups and syllabi.