This databook contains information on student enrollments, faculty, semester credit hours, physical facilities, appropriations, and student loan and grant programs for Texas institutions of higher education, including public and independent two- and four-year colleges. The enrollment section provides five-year (1983-87) summaries of headcount enrollment by type of institution; enrollment data by class standing, sex, and ethnicity; figures for resident and nonresident students; and tables showing county and state of origin of Texas college students. The section containing faculty data provides statistics by rank, ethnicity, sex, and tenure status, as well as information on faculty salaries and student-faculty ratios. The next section breaks down semester credit hours by program for undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels for public universities; and by curriculum area for community and junior colleges. Tables focusing on physical facilities detail investment in the physical plant and net assignable facilities space by function by type of college. In the next section, legislative appropriations for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 are presented by college and agency, and biennial appropriations per full-time equivalent student are detailed for 1953-55 to 1987-89. Finally, the numbers of financial aid awards, grants, and scholarships are reported by type of institution. (ALB)