These proceedings contain presentations made at the National Faculty Plenary Conference, whose theme, Nurturing Vocational Education's Leadership and Intellectual Capital, involved these topics: planning, evaluation, recruitment, and policy implications as they relate to the development and implementation of an Advanced Study Center. Introductory and closing presentations made by Robert E. Taylor, Executive Director of the National Center for Research in Vocational Education, are entitled The Context of an Advanced Study Center for Vocational Education and The National Faculty Resource. Other contents include two presentations on An Advanced Study Center for Vocational Education: Goals and Challenges as well as two Goals and Challenges Reaction Papers; two papers on the topic, Program of Study at the Advanced Study Center: What Should It Be?; another entitled Nurturing the Intellectual Growth and Creative Output of Professional Leaders; two presentations on Education and Work: Issues for the 1980s; and one on the topic, Evaluating the Advanced Study Center. Appendixes include Task Force Reports on three topics: Priority Problems and Issues of the Profession: Agenda Items for the Advanced Study Center, Strategies for Recruiting the Nation's Top Talent, and Program of Study at the Advanced Study Center: What Should It Be? (YLB)