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)

Presents a discussion and listing of the publications dealing with the junior college and community college. (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)

RIF (reduction in force) refers to policies used when dismissals of tenured and probationary instructors are necessary because of a change in the size or nature of student population, inadequate finances, discontinuance of instruction areas, or district consolidation. (Author/PG)

Private junior colleges for women in Boston are suffering from severe financial difficulties. The solutions at three schools, Garland Junior College, Pine Manor Junior College, and Mount Ida Junior College, are presented. (Author/PG)

Before more community colleges are created, those in existence should be evaluated to determine the actual impact of such institutions and the direction in which they should move. (HS)

A review of George B. Vaughan's introductory article for the series "New Directions for Community Colleges" is presented, including summaries of critical works on community colleges and pieces by authors who reexamine their own criticisms. Observations of "outsiders" are seen as essential to community college leaders. (MLW)

Since 1970 North Hennepin Community College in Minneapolis has enrolled 3,411 in its Seniors on Campus program for senior citizens. The key to initiation and continuing development of the program described here is involvement of senior citizens themselves in the Senior Advisory Committee. (JT)

The uncertain status of two-year college teacher preparation looms large in the calls for new degrees and new patterns of preparing faculty. Specific recommendations are made for preparing doctoral graduates to work in community and junior colleges. (LBH)

In 1981, community college enrollments increased by 3.2 percent. Nearly all the growth has come in career, compensatory, and community education rather than in traditional college studies. Liberal arts must be fit to the realities of an institution and a reformation of instruction in the liberal arts is proposed. (MLW)

Discusses the need to improve basic skills of students at community colleges, including the need for faculty to accept their role as teachers, not professors; the importance of training faculty in teaching skills; recognition by community colleges of their role in developing basic skills and job skills; and enrolling students only in courses for…

The growth of community colleges is described and their objectives analyzed. Although community colleges can contribute to society by educating a variety of minority groups, they should not overlook their more important responsibility of educating their majorities of average students. (LBH)

AAJCC's Dale Parnell is queried on what he sees as the role for a national education association and some of the problems facing community colleges today. The federal role in higher education is also discussed. (MLW)

From 1970 to 1983 the proportion of part-time college students increased steadily from 28 to nearly 40 percent. Enrollment at community colleges rose from 48 to 64 percent, while at four-year institutions the increase was from 20 to 23 percent. These trends are discussed and illustrated by tables. (MLW)

The conflict between institutional mission and finance is stressed in this article based on a Brookings Institution study. This tension promises to grow as academe adjusts to a drop in the traditional college-age population, and as the promise of expanding adult markets is either realized or falls short of expectations. (MLW)