This document contains seventeen presentations delivered at the ninth annual meeting of the Florida Statewide Conference on Institutional Research. Part one contains: (1) "Your Legislative Session--1976"; (2) "Equal Access/Equal Opportunity: Institutions, Students, Politics, and Fairness"; (3) "The Impact of the Equal Education and Equal Opportunity Movement on Universitites and Their Management Information Systems"; and (4) "A New Caveat: Let the Buyer Be Aware." Part Two, "Delivery Systems," includes the following papers: (1) "Open Learning: Effectiveness of a Computerized Instructional System"; (2) "Program Evaluation in a New University: Results of a Two Year Program"; (3) "A Comparative Study of the Florida Twelfth Grade Test and the College Level Examination Program"; (4)"A Longitudinal Study of the College Level Examination Program and Student Achievement in the State of Florida"; and (5) "Mid-Point Testing Program: Beauty or Beast?" Part Three, "Other Institutional Studies," presents five papers: (1) "The Effectiveness of an Incoming Student Orientation Program"; (2) "The Cost-Income Component of Program Evaluation"; (3) "Instructional Evaluation System"; (4) "Faculty Salary Increases and Evaluation of Selected Performance Variables"; and (5) "The Role of Institutional Research in Instructional Development: The Emergence of a New Model at the University of Florida." Part Four, "Potpourri," contains three papers: (1) "Distribution of First-Time-in-College Students Within the State University System of Florida"; (2) "Identification and Evaluation of Instruments in Institutional Research"; and (3) Regional Learning Needs Assessment: Practices, Pitfalls and Prospects". (MB)