A policy statement on 1989 public policy agenda by the Council of State Representatives of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) is presented. Eight issues were examined, with three being the primary areas for emphasis. They are: (1) educational opportunity and achievement (with such directives as advocating federal legislation consistent with the Higher Education Act and stimulating federal and state interest in new supplemental programs to reduce the student loan debt); (2) higher education finance and policy (with directives like advocating a permanent extension in the tax code of tax-free tuition benefits for employees who enroll in college-level courses and advocating funding at the state level to institutions that sufficiently reflects affordable low tuition levels at public colleges and universities); and (3) community and economic development (with such directives as advocating federal and state funding for things like long-term reciprocal student and faculty exchange programs, inservice education, and area studies and advocating voluntary national public service legislation that does not supplant existing student financial assistance programs). AASCU advocates policies that reallocate, realign, or reconfigure programs and funding and propose new funding for high priority programs. (SM)