This series consists of correspondence, memoranda, notifications of personnel actions, schedules of expenses, and travel orders relating to the members of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Educational Exchange, specifically their appointments to and their activities on behalf of the Commission. The series also contains correspondence and memoranda relating to the establishment of the Commission after the passage of Public Law 402 and the search for a chairman to succeed Commission Chairman Harvie Branscomb at the end of his term. This series was maintained by the Secretariat of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Educational Exchange and the Advisory Committee on the Arts.