Describes Vancouver Community College's development of a community education program in the district's multiethnic, low-income, urban North East Sector. Explains how the project changed its goals and emphases, how it spawned new projects, and how it declined. Sees a new cycle of community development and social reform taking shape. (AYC)

Considers varying definitions of self-supporting community services programs, revenue sources for self-supporting programs, implications associated with varying interpretations and revenue sources, and practical insights about program management and service area factors. (DMM)

Article examined the role of the community college in developing community services. (RK)

Offers a rationale for interagency cooperation in times of fiscal restraint and enumerates the barriers that have stood in the way of effective community college cooperation with other community agencies providing similar services. Presents suggestions for nullifying these barriers and provides examples of colleges with successful collaborative…

Cites documents from the ERIC junior college collection dealing with community services. (AYC)

Argues that community colleges and community mental health agencies have complementary roles to play in providing individuals with positive educational experiences that can be positive outlets for growth. Cites examples of courses to foster preventive mental health. (AYC)

Argues that the survival of community services/continuing education depends on mainstreaming the program within the parent institution, cultivating relationships with administrators and faculty, establishing credibility, and serving as agents of change. (DMM)

Reviews research pointing to and explaining the underrepresentation of the liberal arts in two-year college community service programs. Highlights programs successfully integrating liberal arts into community services, underscoring the value of advisory committees. Urges colleges to provide socially useful community services that are not readily…

Discusses the position of community services within the community college, examining reasons that community services have not and likely will not reach parity with instructional and guidance services. Describes Navajo Community College as an example of an agency for community uplift--the whole college designed as a community service. (DMM)

Stresses the importance of a proper rationale for reorganizing or establishing community education units, which can serve as the basis for the goals, programs, and services of the unit. Considers the effects of a community-oriented rationale on college mission and institutional integrity, faculty/staff, planning and finances, and students. (DMM)

Describes three goal-oriented strategies used by St. Clair College-Thames Campus (Chatham, Ontario) to meet the needs of the community: cooperation with other major providers of continuing adult education; collaboration with the Kent County Board of Education to obtain updated and upgraded technical equipment; and community outreach to assess…

Provides a summary of a 1984 study of the importance of 40 functions for community college resource development officers. Concludes that development officers are responsible for making friends for the college in the community, sharing this responsibility with others. Sees a role for community services personnel in development functions. (AYC)

Explores the objectives for combining community and student services into one division of a community college. Looks at areas that can be merged and those that do not lend themselves to merger. Discusses personal factors to be considered in selecting the administrator for the merged division. (DMM)

The expansion of the community college to become a people-changing institution is explored by the author, Dean of Adult and Continuing Education at Mayfair College (Illinois). (Editor/RK)

Author reports on a new role for community education in community colleges through cooperation with community schools in the district. (Editor/RK)