This issue of "Policy Insights" reviews the results from an annual survey, conducted by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), of tuition and fees at public colleges and universities in the WICHE region (which includes Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming). Complete data are available in "Tuition and Fees in Public Higher Education in the West, 2011-12: Detailed Tuition and Fees Tables" (www.wiche.edu/pub/15454), published by WICHE in November 2011. The survey on which the report and this policy brief are based was administered to state higher education executive offices or system offices in the Western states. (Contains 5 figures and 12 endnotes.) [For "Tuition and Fees in the West 2010-11. Policy Insights," see ED539045.]