The proceedings of the annual conference of the North East Association for Institutional Research, whose theme was "Planning for Quality," are presented. The 26 papers were divided into the following topics: admissions, assessment, enrollment, faculty and staff, outcomes, planning, programs and retention, the environment, and the field of institutional research. Among them are: "Analyzing the Inquiry Pool to Develop Positioning Strategies: Application to Two Universities" (Robert S. Lay and David W. Bradley); "An Approach to Studying Student Preference of College and Future Enrollments" (Glenwood Rowse); "COMP As a Measure of Educational Impact" (Kendy Maccoll Rudy); "The Effects of Skills Measures on Student Retention" (Frank Rusciano); "An Experiment in Using ACT-COMP" (Lois Torrence); "A Computer Model for Long Range Enrollment Planning" (David Bradley, Peter Farago, and Carolyn Shettle); "Enrollment Projections: A Model for the Regional Public Institution with a Non-traditional Student Population" (Robert M. Karp); "Estimating Fall Enrollments and FTE's Using a Student Flow Model" (Louis Spiro); "A Model for Projecting Tenure Density at the Institutional Level" (Christos Theophilides); "Career Maturity, Locus of Control, and Job-Seeking Behavior in the Initial Employment of College Graduates" (Kathleen Day Hulbert); "The Role and Scope of Institutional Research in the State University Planning and Budgeting" (Thomas Freeman and Kathleen Kopf); "Cross-Impact Matrix Approach for the Generation of Academic Planning Models" (Edward Jordan); "Degree Patterns--An Indicator of Institutional and State Responsiveness" (Donald Hester); "Reaganomics and Research" (John P. Joyce and Beverly A. Joyce); "Institutional Research and Accreditation at the Defense Intelligence School" (Hugo A. Keesing); "Institutional Research Without a Computer--Student Characteristics: Collection, Assimilation, and Application" (Kathleen O'Reilly); and "Institution-Based Interinstitutional Research: Boon or Burden" (Dwight Wolf). (LC)