Edmund J. Gleazer's "The Community College: Values, Vision, and Vitality" is reviewed. Gleazer, who served as president of the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges, sees the community college's mission as encouraging and facilitating lifelong learning, with community as process and product. (MLW)

The communiversity concept includes the full array of formal educational institutions in a locality as well as the many less education-centered organizations having educational components within them. Its impact on community colleges is examined and the need for action at the national level suggested. (LBH)

A key to the movement toward open access to higher education has been the growth of public community colleges, which are reexamining their priorities, resources, and missions. The need for "people's colleges" to reconcile their concern for quality with their commitment to open access is discussed. (MLW)

PROPED, the Brazilian acronym for Research and Education Program for Development prepares scientific and technical experts and is involved in applied research and service projects. One of PROPED's goals is to devise projects for community development. (Author/PG)

Confrontations have arisen between local communities and universities involved in molecular biology research. The situation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is described in which citizens have opposed work undertaken at Harvard and MIT. (LBH)

Discusses the relationship of scholarship to outreach in the college or university's engagement with community problems. Suggests use of four quality outreach dimensions: significance, attention to context, internal and external impact, and scholarship. Identifies tensions faculty involved in outreach may experience, such as maintaining clear,…

Interviews with the five 1992 winners of the national Student Humanitarian Service Awards focus on motivation for public service, relationship with the community, compulsory student service requirements, student recruitment, faculty recruitment, and personal development. (DB)

Schoolcraft College in Michigan has designed a program in which inmates of a women's prison, the Detroit House of Correction (DeHoCo), are trained as nurse-attendants and teachers' aides in special education. Daily classroom instruction is combined with on-the-job training with retarded children. (LBH)

With erosion of confidence in the political state, academic influences are becoming increasingly local. The consequences of this influence are discussed. (Editor/PG)

Educational reform by Miami-Dade Community College is discussed by its president, Robert H. McCabe. In an action that is considered unusual for two-year schools, it has tightened controls on its curriculum, faculty, and students. A commitment to achieving higher levels of literacy is advocated. (MLW)

Discusses the University of Heidelberg, one of Europe's most distinguished universities, and its political and community problems. (PG)

Discusses the new relationship in higher education between the university and the "free" university community that surrounds it. (PG)

The University of the Americas has disrupted the social fabric of the town of Cholula, Mexico in an effort to provide an American college experience in a foreign setting. It has enriched some citizens of Cholula, pauperized others, and provided a questionable education for its students. (PG)

In an effort to end the dispute over desegregation in Boston, a master plan has been developed that recommends that Boston-area colleges and universities direct the improvement of curricula and instruction in the public schools. (Author/PG)