The role of the community colleges in career education, compensatory education, community education, and transfer education is discussed in terms of its development in the 1970s and its future in the 1980s. (JMF)

Describes the pitfalls inherent in removing all barriers to postsecondary education at the community college level. (PG)

State-level influences on community colleges are becoming more and more pronounced (greater state financial support, more state coordination in all higher education, general politicization of higher education) and its consequences are enumerated in this article (role changes, state instructional planning). (Author/PG)

The uncertain status of two-year college teacher preparation looms large in the calls for new degrees and new patterns of preparing faculty. Specific recommendations are made for preparing doctoral graduates to work in community and junior colleges. (LBH)

In 1981, community college enrollments increased by 3.2 percent. Nearly all the growth has come in career, compensatory, and community education rather than in traditional college studies. Liberal arts must be fit to the realities of an institution and a reformation of instruction in the liberal arts is proposed. (MLW)

The status of the humanities in community colleges was reviewed in a national survey by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges. Recommendations are reported by this ERIC director, based on the assumptions that the humanities must be maintained and that they could be most effectively strengthened through interventions with the faculty…