This report of the proceedings of a meeting on graduate education in the United States contains papers from plenary and concurrent sessions, information on the Council of Graduate Schools' (CGS) business meeting, copies of the CGS constitution and bylaws, CGS list of member institutions, and accounts of award presentations. Papers have the following titles and authors: "Problems of Research at Master's Level Institutions" (Linda Mantel); "Encouraging Scholarship by the Graduate Faculty" (Michael L. Mark); "Report from Washington Agencies: Issues and Opportunities" (Sara S. Chapman); "The Graduate Dean in University Administration: Changing Roles and Responsibilities" (Anne Clark and others); "Dissertations and Theses: Roles in Graduate Education" (Leila S. Edwards and others);"Graduate Education for Teachers" (Dean Corrigan); "Tell Me What Is Your Specialty?" (John Ziman); "Graduate Engineering for Minorities Program (GEM)" (Martha Conley); "The Talent Pool for 1990 and Beyond" (Betty M. Vetter); "Minority Graduate Education: Models and Successes" (Sarita E. Brown); "Minority Recruitment in Physics at M.I.T." (George Koster); "What Scholars Think about Scholarly Communication" (Herbert C. Morton); "The Electronic Scholar" (Patricia Battin); "Electronic Publication: Its Impact on Scholarship" (Adam Hodgkin); "International Educational Exchange: The Case of China" (David M. Lampton); "Latin Americanist Perspective on the Fulbright Program" (C. W. Minkel); "Perspectives on Research Funding" (Charles L. Hosler; Karen Hiiemae); "Perspectives on Research Funding--The Private Sector" (Kenneth L. Hoving); "Graduate Student Financial Aid" (Sheila Cooper and others). (LPT)