Papers from the 1979 annual meeting of the North East Association for Institutional Research are presented. The theme of the conference was institutional research and creative change. Part One, Budget/Cost Analysis, contains papers on academic income-cost models for institutional planning, a budget incentive factor within declining enrollments, energy conservation techniques, and instructional cost analysis at a small college. Part Two on Planning presents five papers concerning areas such as creative change through cooperation, long-range planning, the use and misuse of systems approaches, and planning support systems. Part Three, Faculty, examines: faculty resource allocation, software approach to instruction, and faculty goals and activities. Part Four, College/University Community and Institutional Research, contains five papers dealing with areas such as grade inflation, the quality of student life, college attrition, and institutional research at a community college. Part Five, Admissions/Enrollment/Financial Aid, examines tools for marketing management and enrollment trends, factors affecting freshman applicants, and college choice. The final section, Managing Student Enrollment: The Boston College Story, examines information systems, admission processes, financial aid and student attrition as it applies to Boston College. The appendix provides a copy of the conference program. (LC)