Major issues affecting higher education in Texas in the 1980s are identified in 20 working papers from outside consultants, the academic community, and Texas College and University System Coordinating Board staff. Topics and authors include: higher education in Texas in the 1980s (Christopher Dede); leadership in higher education (Joseph Kauffman); education for the future (John D. Moseley); media and technology (John E. Fryman); faculty tenure (William R. Keast); the importance of research (H. Eldon Sutton); collective bargaining (Milden J. Fox, Jr.); state support of higher education (John Harris); independent higher education in Texas (Charles H. Oestreich); potential impacts of water resources on higher education in Texas (Robert M. Sweazy, Lloyd V. Urban, and George A. Whetstone); significant issues confronting Texas higher education (William R. Johnson); issues influencing the future of urban institutions of higher education (Charles E. Bishop); health professional education (Edward N. Brandt, Jr.); community college funding (Jean Richardson); public community college program development and evolvement in the 1980s (Robert L. Clinton); investment in higher education; balance between general and vocational education (Doris Burbank); public higher education finance; statewide planning for campus construction; and energy resources. (LB)