Institutional research that focuses on professional development is addressed in 35 papers from the 1982 meeting of the North East Association for Institutional Research. Titles and authors include the following: "Modeling College Student Adjustment and Retention for the Individual Institution" (Norman D. Aitken); "The Development Saga of an Institutional Research Database at a State College" (Edward L. Delaney); "Projecting Enrollments at Small Colleges (The Role of the Institutional Researcher)" (Randall Draper); "A Model of University Tenure Decision-Making: Some Additional Results" (Winship C. Fuller, Susan A. Goodwin); "Microcomputers in Institutional Research" (Leah R. Hutten); "Strategic Planning: Working with Department Chairs" (Antoinette Iadarola); "The Design and Implementation of an Evening Student Survey: Methodological Issues and Practical Considerations" (Linda Lyons); "Developing a Composite of Institutional Reputation and Assessing Its Impact upon Selected Student Behaviors" (John P. Mandryk); "Improving Faculty Use of Student Outcomes Information" (Sidney S. Micek); "Sexual Inequity in Career Choice: How Can Colleges Help?" (Jean V. Morlock); and "Comparative Fiscal Analysis in Higher Education" (David L. Rumpf). (SW)