This document contains system responses to the California Performance Review. Each ETV contains a recommendation and a comment. Some sections of the report include: Restructure the Role of the Secretary for Education, Create an Education and Workforce Council, Consolidate Selected State Higher Education Agencies, and Eliminate Unnecessary Reports…

Changes being made in public college governance are increasingly motivated by state governments' desire to have state boards exercise more policy leadership on some difficult higher education issues, including setting up productive university-industry economic development ventures, minority student recruiting, and improving teacher education. (MSE)

Higher education has emerged as a big issue in Louisiana's fall election campaign. Finance, governance, admissions standards, and desegregation are discussed. The six candidates include Governor Edwin W. Edwards, Billy Tauzin, Jim Brown, Speedy O. Long, Robert L. Livingston, and Buddy Roemer. (MLW)

While it is a land-grant university with ambitious plans, the University of the District of Columbia faces the problems posed by its urban context, expectations, small endowment, administrative turnover, and administrative scandals. (MSE)

The monograph presents 16 issue papers prepared by the California Commission for the Review of the Master Plan for Higher Education. Papers have the following titles: "Access to Postsecondary Education in California"; "Financing Postsecondary Education in California"; "Graduate Education and Research in California…