Editorial It is an honour to be asked to act as editor of the Canadian Journal of Higher Education and I express my thanks for all the careful foundation work' carried out by my predecessor, Dr. E. J. Monahan. I am also very grateful to my colleague, Professor André Girard, for all his informed and patient help. Our readers will note that the Editorial Board of this journal has now been reconstituted. The journal is fortunate that the new Board contains so many persons well known for their contributions to Canadian higher education and that the membership of the Board is so representative of Canada as a whole. The articles in the present issue deal with the critical question of the financing of Canadian higher education during the 1970's. This was the topic of the 1973 meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education, and the present articles come from some of the papers delivered at that meeting. I believe that these articles form an important contribution to the discussion of one of the most critical problems facing present-day Canadian higher education. I am sure that they will stimulate further study on and writing about a question that deeply concerns not only the institutions of higher education, but the people of Canada. ROBIN ROSS Editor