The theme of the 1972 annual forum of the Association for Institutional Research, Reformation and Reallocation in Higher Education, was chosen because it was timely and relevant to significant problems of higher education and, therefore, to institutional research. Papers presented at the forum fall under the categories of costs and the financial crisis; curriculum and program evaluation; models, modeling and systems; reaching consensus and establishing priorities; and faculty workload and manpower studies. Invited papers at the conference concerned institutional research as a vital force in higher education, centralization of power in higher education, and open access to higher education as a clue to reformation and reallocation. (HS)