A survey of the finance and executive officers of the statewide coordinating and governing boards in the United States and one Canadian province (Manitoba) gathered information on state policy regarding college costs, tuition, and student financial aid. The first part, completed by finance officers, asked specific questions about the responsibility for policy formation on a variety of related financial issues, resource allocation within the public sector, factors affecting decisionmaking, perceptions of state policy, and state efforts to gather information on which to base policy decisions. Some specific responses are presented. In the second part, completed by state executive officers, respondents were asked to state their agreement with, action on, concern about, or opinion concerning statements on a variety of financial policy-related issues. Responses (and survey questions) are presented by board type (coordinating or governing) and as percentages of that group and of the whole group. In this survey, individual responses were confidential. (MSE)