The Michael P. Walsh, SJ, President’s Office Records document Walsh’s tenure as twenty-second president of Boston College, 1958-1968. This collection consists largely of administrative records and contains committee, departmental, and faculty files as well as admission records, building plans, correspondence, subject files, and materials relating to the University's centennial celebrations in 1963. Subject files contain biographical information in addition to other topics of interest to Walsh, including some documents predating his administration. Materials date from 1933-1982.

Building records document the construction and renovation of campus buildings and include building plans, proposals, and correspondence concerning dedications and blessings. Centennial celebration materials include invitations, programs, correspondence, information about the publication of the University history Crowned Hilltop by Jack Frost, event plans, clippings, information on honorary degree recipients, and colloquy and conference papers. Of particular note in this series are John F. Kennedy's convocation speech and materials pertaining to the convocation in honor of Cardinal Augustin Bea, SJ. Subject files relate mostly to University administration but also hold some personal correspondence and biographical information, including transcripts of an oral history interview with Walsh. Boston College's postwar growth and increasing interest in diversity are revealed in the admission records and subject files, while building, committee, and faculty records show an increasing organizational complexity.

Student records, faculty tenure and promotion files, and other records containing personally identifiable information are closed due to privacy restrictions. This includes the entirety of Series I. Admissions, as well as a small number of materials in other series.