Thirty papers from a 1980 University of Arizona conference on higher education financing policies and the state government-college relationship are presented. Papers and authors include the following: "Higher Education Financing Policies: A Context" (Ernest Boyer); "The State Board Perspective" (William Arceneaux); "The Chief Institutional Finance Officer Perspective" (James Brinkerhoff); "Indexing Tuition to Cost of Education: Implications for State Policy" (Dennis Viehland, Norman Kaufman, and Barbara Krauth); "Designing State Student-Aid Policies for the 1980s" (Jane Louise Johnson); "Budgeting for Enrollment Decline: The Indiana Experience" (Charles Seitz); "Budgeting for Enrollment Decline: The Virginia Experience" (Robert Schultze); "Budgeting for Enrollment Decline: The Ohio Experience" (George Baughman); "Managing Fiscal Crisis: The California Experience" (William Pickens); "Managing Fiscal Crisis: The Wisconsin Experience" (George Hyer); "Managing Fiscal Crisis: The University of Washington Experience" (Robert Thompson); "Information Needs for Budgetary Analysis: The University of Houston Experience" (Frank Brown); "Incentive Budgeting" (David Berg); "Expected Conditions and Potential Responses" (Edward Whalen); "A Plan for Improved Space Utilization" (William Fuller); "The Capital Margin" (Hans Jenny); "Factors Impact on Compensation" (Terry Peterson); "What Quality Means" (Frank Bowen); "Quality Issues: A State Perspective" (Robert Huff); "Maricopa County Community College, Arizona" (A. M. Flowers); "Fort Steilacoom Community College, Washington" (Jack Asby); "The California Study" (Frank Bowen and Lyman Glenny); and "Reducing Conflict Between State Boards and Institutions" (Larry Leslie). (SW)