Proceedings of the 1983 annual meeting of the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) in the United States are presented. Included are reports of concurrent sessions, papers, and information on the Council's business meeting. Topics of concurrent sessions include: the federal legislative process, graduate school databases, the scholar-computer connection, accreditation of professional master's degree programs, CGS/Graduate Record Examination Board agenda for minority graduate education, centralized research facilities and administration, CGS plans for the future, and liberal studies master's degree programs for teachers and business. Papers and authors are as follows: "The Global Mission of American Higher Education" (Robert E. Marshak); "The Virtues of Necessity: New Connections for the Humanities" (O. B. Hardison); "The Outlook for Continued Federal Support of Graduate Education" (Paul Simon); and "Report of the Council of Graduate Schools: Graduate Record Examinations Board 1983-1984 Survey of Graduate Enrollment" (Bernard V. Khoury). Also included are six resolutions of CGS, a list of 1983 officers and committees, a list of regional associations of graduate schools affiliated with CGS, a list of member institutions, and the constitution and bylaws. (SW)