Results of the Council for Financial Aid to Education's 1982 survey of 534 companies providing financial support to higher education are summarized. Attention is directed to: national trends in corporate pretax net income and contributions; inflation; corporate support in relation to total voluntary support and institutional expenditures; the distribution and types of corporate contributions; foundation cash flow by industry; changes in market value of corporate foundation assets by industry; comparative ranking of educational support by industry; total support of education in relation to worldwide pretax net income and assets; and contributions by manufacturing companies. Findings include the following: corporate support of education in 1982 rose 20.4 percent above the 1981 level; total corporate contributions rose 13.4 percent in 1982; contributions by company foundations exceeded receipts, but shortfalls were more than covered by earnings on foundations' assets; gifts of company products and in-kind items comprised almost 11 percent of total contributions; education support between 1977 and 1982 increased an average 29.9 percent each year from manufacturing companies, 26.1 percent from nonmanufacturing companies; and matching gifts continued to climb. (SW)