The biennial WICHE Legislative Work Conference sought to determine how State legislators and officials conceived the major needs and issues of postsecondary education in the West and to reach some consensus as to the relative importance of those issues and needs vis-a-vis each other. The final results of this approach, using the Delphi technique, are presented in the first section of this publication. It is hoped that they will prove helpful to the participants in their consideration of educational problems in their own States. The three papers that were presented at the conference are printed in this document. They dealt with the need for future planning, the pros and cons of tenure, and summaries of the National Commission on the Financing of Postsecondary Education. Forecasts of changes in postsecondary education and WICHE's future role are also included. This publication is to be distributed to all legislators and college and university presidents in the West. Its purpose is to call attention to some of the future needs of postsecondary education in the next decade. (Author/PG)