These proceedings include 83 papers and 24 abstracts of papers contributed at the AIR's Annual Forum. Practitioners at two- and four-year colleges and universities, public and private (teachers, department chairmen, and administrators) as well as theoreticians are addressed. Papers fall into 13 categories: (1) presidential address and theme elaboration; (2) planning and management analysis; (3) financial analysis; (4) faculty evaluation, analysis, and development; (5) decision strategies for management; (6) program budgeting; (7) state level planning and analysis; (8) affirmative action and consumer protection; (9) student admission, retention, and follow-up; (10) institutional research: theory and technique; (11) consensus developing techniques; (12) simulation models and management information systems; and (13) course and curriculum analysis. (MSE)