This is the eighth annual report on California higher education performance indicators prepared by California Postsecondary Education Commission pursuant to Assembly Bill 1808 (Hayden, Chapter 741 of the Statutes of 1991). "Performance Indicators of California Higher Education, 2001" presents background on the development and recent revision of California's performance indicators for higher education, describes the scope of the current set of indicators reported by the Commission, and highlights recent trends based on current information related to these indicators. The higher education performance indicators in this report are divided into five categories: Population Context, Fiscal Context, Student Preparation, Student Access, and Student Outcomes. Committee recommendations that affected indicators in all five sections included augmenting that data with national comparative information, wherever appropriate, and presenting gender comparisons, if such information is available. AB 1808 (Chapter 741, Statutes of 1991) is appended.