This report provides an audit of state policies in Ohio affecting access to, and success in, community colleges for students of color and low-income students. It was commissioned by Lumina Foundation for Education as part of a series of policy audits of the states involved in Achieving the Dream. Lumina Foundation is the primary funder of the initiative (Dougherty, Reid, & Nienhusser, 2006; Dougherty and Reid, 2006). Ohio is one of two states in the second round of the Achieving the Dream initiative. In joining the initiative along with Connecticut, it brings in a northern Midwestern state that is quite different from the five southern and southwestern states that comprised the first round of the Achieving the Dream initiative. Ohio has an economy that is historically centered in heavy manufacturing, a diverse white ethnic community, and a political culture that in Elazar's (1984) terms, is individualistic rather than traditionalist. This report is the product of intensive interviews that we conducted in Ohio and an analysis of documents produced both by state agencies and external organizations such as the Education Commission of the States. We interviewed officials of the Ohio Board of Regents, state legislators and staff, gubernatorial advisors, state and local officials representing public two-year colleges, and heads of organizations representing African Americans and Latinos. We first set the stage by explaining why we focused on certain policies and what methods we used to investigate them. We then move to analyzing the state context: the size and composition of the state's population; the nature of its economy; and the structure, governance, and finance of the community college system. We then describe the state's policies affecting access to and success in community college for students of color and low-income students. The Achieving the Dream initiative is focusing on student success, but access remains an issue in Ohio and therefore is covered as well. This report also addresses the state's provisions for performance accountability. It has clear relevance to the aim of the Achieving the Dream initiative to use the analysis of data as the main lever to improve both community college efforts and state policies to improve student access and success. As we go along, we note any evaluations that our interviewees made of those policies and any policy proposals they themselves offered. In the summary and conclusions, we describe policy directions the state may wish to consider in its quest for greater equality of access and success in community colleges. (Contains 1 table and 15 endnotes.)