Recent mandates from state and accrediting agencies are requiring community colleges to provide evidence of their success in such areas as basic skills and remediation, general education, major-field content, student development, transfer effectiveness, job training, job placement, and fiscal accountability. This volume, in addition to describing some contemporary mandates for institutional effectiveness, presents a range of institutional research models that can be used to seek answers to the complex questions being posed. The volume includes the following nine articles: (1) "The Traditional Centralized Model of Institutional Research," by Julie Slark; (2) "The Centralized Research Model in a Multicampus District," by John Losak; (3) "The Coordinated Research Model in a Multicampus District," by Janis Cox Jones; (4) "The Decentralized Research Model," by Peter MacDougall, Jack Friedlander, Elaine Cohen, and John Romo; (5) "The Centralized-Decentralized Research Model," by Marylin Orton; (6) "Research by Voluntary Consortium," by Don Doucette and Jeffrey A. Seybert; (7) "t-Test for Two: A State-Local Research Partnership," by Daniel D. McConochie and James D. Tschechtelin; (8) "The State Agency-College-Mandated Approach," by Madan Capoor and Edward Morante; and (9) "Responding to Mandates for Institutional Effectiveness," by Jack Friedlander and Peter R. MacDougall. (PAA)