Discusses the Office of Science and Technology, the Office of Management and Budget, and Research Applied to National Needs of the National Science Foundation and their roles in determining policy during the period of steady-state in science. (PG)

Noting that junior college institutional research is being affected by two major influences--changing student populations and information demands of state and federal agencies--the author suggests specific questions for research important to college operations and emphasizes the need to reconcile the frequently contradictory internal and external…