Documents surrounding Paul A. FitzGerald, SJ’s book The Governance of Jesuit Colleges in the United States (Notre Dame Press, approximately 1984), including the acquisition of research materials, drafts, and promotion. The book was largely based on research in the Jesuit Educational Association records (JA.2015.001, John J. Burns Library, Boston College) plus these additional primary source materials FitzGerald acquired. His papers include correspondence,... drafts, reviews of his book, photographs, and collected materials on Jesuit education history, most notably a full set of the Jesuit Inter-Province Committee on Studies minutes (1921-1931). Also includes FitzGerald's encyclopedia entries on Jesuit education and Jesuit educators.

FitzGerald's papers also contain his documents as a representative to the International Federation of Catholic Universities (Fédération Internationale des Universités Catholiques, FIUC), 1978-1982, principally in the form of reports and printed matter, as well as some biographic materials.