The 1988 annual conference of the North East Association for Institutional Research focused on strategic choice. Selected papers included: "Fact Books: Paper-Based or Electronic?" (T. Gusler); "Electronic Factbooks" (J. Jacobsen); "A Comparative Analysis of Community College Administrators' and Adult Evening Credit Course Students' Attitudes Toward College Programs, Services and Environment in a Theoretically Formulated Marketing Context" (P. Murray); "The Use of Census Data to Identify New Student Markets" (D. Coan, R. Nigro); "Use of Demographic and Financial Projections in the Development of a Strategic Long-Range Plan" (R. Hoffman, and others); "Information for Planning" (F. Schmidtlein, T. Milton); "Assessment at Albany" (J. Volkwein, and others); "When Is It Going to Stop? A Speculation on Tuition Rates at One Private University" (J. Dunn and D. Terkla); "The Interactive Effect of Concern About Price on College Choice" (Y. Mulugetta, S. Murphy); "Trends in Student Aid: 1980 to 1988" (G. Lewis); "Symbiosis: The High School Partnership Program" (A. Sturtz); "Institutional Responses to State Mandates for Outcomes Assessment: Strategic Choice Based on Rationality, Bureaucracy and Politics" (A. Suchanic); "Gender Differences in Freshman Performance and Their Relationship to Use of the SAT in Admissions" (E. Armstrong); "Faculty Salary Equity" (J. Dutton, K. Bissonnette); "Patterns of Fund-Raising Proceeds and Costs" (J. Dunn, A. Adam); "The Use of Microcomputer in Discipline Cost Analysis" (K. Rajasekhara); "Assessment of Freshmen Writing Skills" (Z. Goldberg);"A Comparison of Two Placement Methods for Writing Courses" (K. Keenan); "Teaching Institutional Research to the Learning-Inhibited Institution" (M. Bagshaw); "Survey of Part-Time Faculty Members" (D. Hemenway, R. Garies); "Factors Which Affect Retention of Adult Learners During the First Year of Graduate-Level Study" (C. Oatis); "An Analysis of the Student Persistence and Attrition Process: An Urban College Perspective" (D. Costello, B. Pfeiffer); and "An Analysis of Factors Related to Student Learning Outcomes" (J. Morlock, and others). (KM)