This publication provides a comprehensive overview of work done across all parts of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Each issue contains short publications, summaries, and descriptions that cover all NCES publications and data products released in a 3-month period. Each issue also contains a message from the NCES on a timely subject and a featured topic with invited commentary. The feature topic covered in this publication is School Crime and Safety. Following the note from Kathryn A. Chandler, articles in this issue include: (1) Are America's Schools Safe? Students Speak Out: 1999 School Crime Supplement (Lynn A. Addington, Sally A. Ruddy, Amanda K. Miller, and Jill F. DeVoe); (2) Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2002 (Jill F. DeVoe, Katharin Peter, Phillip Kaufman, Sally A. Ruddy, Amanda K. Miller, Mike Planty, Thomas D. Snyder, Detis T. Duhart, and Michael R. Rand); (3) Invited Commentary: The Federal Government's Role in Measuring and Reporting on School Crime and Safety (Richard Lawrence, Professor of Criminal Justice, St. Cloud State University); (4) Internet Access in U.S. Public Schools and Classrooms: 1994-2001 (Anne Kleiner and Elizabeth Farris); (5) What Students Pay for College: Changes in Net Price of College Attendance Between 1992-93 and 1999-2000 (Laura Horn, Christina Chang Wei, and Ali Berker); (6) Short-Term Enrollment in Postsecondary Education: Student Background and Institutional Differences in Reasons for Early Departure, 1996-98 (Ellen M. Bradburn); (7) A Profile of Participation in Distance Education: 1999-2000 (Anna C. Sikora); (8) Beyond 9 to 5: The Diversity of Employment Among 1992-93 College Graduates in 1997 (Ellen M. Bradburn and Rachael Berger); (9) Gender and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Salary and Other Characteristics of Postsecondary Faculty: Fall 1998 (Ellen M. Bradburn and Anna C. Sikora); (10) Enrollment in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2000 and Financial Statistics, Fiscal Year 2000 (Laura G. Knapp, Janice E. Kelly, Roy W. Whitmore, Shiying Wu, and Lorraine M. Gallego); (11) Hispanic Serving Institutions: Statistical Trends From 1990 to 1999 (Christina Stearns and Satoshi Watanabe); (12) Programs for Adults in Public Library Outlets (Laurie Lewis and Elizabeth Farris); (13) State Library Agencies: Fiscal Year 2001 (Barbara Holton, Elaine Kroe, Patricia O'Shea, Cindy Sheckells, Suzanne Dorinski, and Michael Freeman); and (14) Federal Support for Education: Fiscal Years 1980 to 2002 (Charlene M. Hoffman). Listings and information on data products, other publications, funding opportunities, and an index conclude the issue. (Individual articles contain references.)