A nationwide survey of community college legislation introduced and made operative between 1973 and 1975 indicates a trend toward greater state control of postsecondary education. Numerous specific cases are cited in affected areas ranging from regulations concerning facilities to laws dealing with governance. New collective bargaining legislation…

Article focused on educational problems in New York...who will be coordinated by whom, how can coordination be separated from control, what are the goals, who is accountable to whom, and how can it all be paid for...these are the major questions. (Editor/RK)

Offers results and analysis of responses to a survey of state directors of community colleges conducted to determine state-level awareness and concern about the coordination and delineation of spheres of responsibility among the educational segments providing lifelong learning opportunities, and approaches to addressing the lifelong learning…

Reviews the purposes and findings of a nationwide study of state directors of two-year college systems conducted to measure the current status and future directions of statutory and administrative agency policies affecting potential community college and public school coordination and cooperation with respect to lifelong learning. (DMM)

Since 1948, the locus of leadership, control, and management of the community colleges of New York has been vested in a three-tiered structural arrangement--the local institutional board of trustees and local sponsor, the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York (SUNY), and the Board of Regents. Article 126, the Community College Law,…