This publication is the master plan for higher education in Illinois and covers statewide goals, institutional missions, instruction, research, public service, equal opportunity and affirmative action, student financial aid, and state funding. Section I lists goals for the Illinois Higher Education and Coordination and Planning Board and describes Illinois Board of Higher Education membership and organization, and its overall system of governance. Section II on institutional missions describes a differentiated system and the public university missions, the public community college missions, and the nonpublic colleges and universities. Section III, on instruction, sets out general guidelines, undergraduate education policies, doctoral education, professional education, and interinstitutional cooperation and off-campus programs. Section IV lays out three research policies. Section V articulates five public service policies. Section VI presents equal opportunity and affirmative action policies. Section VII is on student financial aid and treats protecting access and choice, allocating funds, meeting demographic challenges, and improving communications on financial aid. State funding addressed in Section VIII examines public university tuition, operations and grants, and capital. Section IX covers miscellaneous issues including presidents' and chancellors' residences, and alcohol abuse and illegal drug use. An appendix lists master planning reports from July 1964 through July 1991. (JB)