The recommendations contained in this report represent the positions of the New Mexico Association of Community, Junior and Technical Colleges concerning important issues facing the state's two-year institutions. In each of 12 areas, a discussion of key issues is followed by a series of recommendations. These areas are: (1) the continuation of low tuition charges; (2) the potential role of community colleges in economic development; (3) local autonomy in program approval; (4) licensure of vocational instructors; (5) developmental education; (6) the development of a welfare reform program linked to education; (7) recognition of the associate degree in nursing as the minimum educational requirement for licensure examination and entry into practice; (8) cooperative education programs; (9) two-year college involvement with the Job Training Partnership Act; (10) state legislation giving counties a 2% share of the revenues generated from property taxes; (11) state-level promotion of two-year institutions to the public; (12) the inclusion of two-year colleges in any statewide plan for the initiation of "prestige professorships." (EJV)