Centralized control of budgets and programs, a growing consumerism among students, and collective bargaining are among the issues addressed in a Florida statewide conference on institutional research. papers and reports include: the keynote address; a legislative workshop; a collective bargaining panel; The New College Story as Told by 103 Alumni (Day E. Glasser); The Placement Study Problem (Norris Miner); Planning Community College General Education Programs Through the Delphi Technique (Virginia Lee Scigliano); Funding and Control: Fact or Illusion (Pauline Masterson); Assessing Institutional Change: Decision Making Tools (John E. Bailey III); Issues and Decisions Facing Institutional Researchers in Preparing for Lifelong Learning (Charles J. Hensen); Degree Program Inventories, Program Review and Decision Making in Academic Planning (G. Emerson Tully); A Response to the Office of Civil Rights: Yes, We'll Comply: With What Criteria? (Gary B. Lott, David C. Montgomery); Decision Making in Graduate Admissions Policies in the Florida State University System: A Critical Review (Joan Gallini); Special Programs for Special Students (Sue M. Legg, Jeaninne N. Webb); The Validity of the ACT Assessment for a Shift in Decision Making (James Maxey); Who's Rating Whom These Days and Why? (Archie B. Johnston); Resources Ratios as a Means of Institutional Evaluation and Decision Making (Larry G. Jones); Roots: The Dilemma of Admission to Higher Education for Nonwhites in Florida (A.A. Abraham); To CLEP or not to CLEP: An Analysis of the Validity of the College Level Examination Program (Denise Strenglein); Helping Administrators Shift to Short-Range Enrollment Projections (Charles D. Salley). (MSE)