Community colleges, because of their strategic placement within the community, are particularly well-suited to becoming catalysts in the problem-solving process of the community by performing the research which underlies community development. Social science faculty, given their methodological training, community orientation, and teaching focus,…

As the concept of community is changing, emphasis in community analysis is changing from a geographic focus to examination of interest clusters within a geographic location. Village communities are declining while town-country communities are becoming more numerous. The suburban community is a recent development, and although it develops its own…

The purpose of this bibliography has been to develop an operational resource to persons wanting to become effective community change agents. It is used in conjunction with the community-training activities of the University of Cincinnati's Community Human Resources Training (CHART) Program, described in the introduction to the bibliography. The…