A task force report recommends ways to promote educational reform in higher education in New Mexico. Forty recommendations address the following areas: institutional missions, academic excellence and accountability, community colleges, student financial aid, affirmative action, economic development, capital outlay, and funding issues. Specific considerations include: statewide planning, outcomes of college programs, program review and approval, admission standards and access, remedial education, community college students and programs, community college governance and articulation issues, federal and state student financial aid, percentage of degrees earned by different ethnic groups, student and employee ethnicity, business and personnel training needs, enhancement of high demand degrees, enhancement of high quality research, industrial parks and centers for technical excellence, capital outlay funding sources, capital outlay responsibilities, formula funding issues, student tuition, enhancement for regional and research institutions, and impact of recommended tuition increase. Appended is a summary of testimony to the Governor's Task Force on Higher Education Reform. (SW)