The contents of the federal Higher Education Act of 1965 are summarized, with attention to competing interests and policy areas of concern to the California Postsecondary Education Commission. Current provisions and proposed changes are reviewed for: Title I, Continuing Postsecondary Education Program and Planning; Title II, College and Research Library Assistance and Library Training and Research; Title III, Institutional Aid; Title IV, Student Assistance; Title V, Teacher Preparation; Title VI, International Education; Title VII, Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Academic Facilities; Title VIII, Cooperative Education; Title IX, Graduate Programs; Title X, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education; Title XI, Urban Grant University Program; and Title XII, General Provisions. Among the proposed changes are the following: support to institutional development and operation of adult learner programs if colleges can show that the programs relate to state plans for adult and continuing education; grants to small libraries with financial need to improve their technological capacity and grants to more advanced libraries to promote the state of the art through research and demonstration projects; and sustained support for historically black institutions. (SW)