Volume One of a report by the Arizona Board of Regents' independent citizen commission to examine the performance of the state's three public universities presents background material on the formation of the task force, a final report, and a summary of recommendations. It then presents 27 working papers in two sections. Section 1, Ethnic Minority Students, offers 11 papers, including the following "Community College-University Articulation in Arizona" (R. MacVicar); "Progress Report: Access and Persistence of Minority Students in the Arizona Universities" (A. Cotera and others); "Student Financial Assistance in the Arizona Public Universities" (V. Cowart); "Barriers to Minority Access and Persistence in Arizona's Universities: Perceptions of Students, Faculty, Staff, and Administrators (J. Wood); and "Minority Education in Arizona's Universities" (J. Wood). Section 2, Quality of Undergraduate Education, features 16 working papers, including: "Evaluation and Assessment: A Literature Review (Summary)" (M. Talbott and K. Church); "Teacher Supply and Demand in the 1990's and Professional Education of Teachers in Arizona" (E. Sherberg); "Report on Honors Programs at the University of Arizona, Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University" (C. Austin); "Role of Temporary Faculty in Undergraduate Education at the Three Arizona Universities" (G. Davis and others); "A Survey of Undergraduate Student Opinions" (K. Church), and "Arizona: The State and Its Educational System" (H. Hodgkinson). (SM)