Beyond Crossroads addresses many of the challenges facing American higher education and offers members of AMATYC an ideal opportunity to respond energetically and constructively to these challenges. Notwithstanding the many efforts to improve secondary schooling, most students enter postsecondary education well behind where they should be in mathematics. If two-year colleges are to succeed in preparing students for life and work in the 21st century, AMATYC members will necessarily play an increasingly central role.