As a best practice, community-engaged courses should benefit students, community, and faculty through centering the needs and goals of each entity. Ensuring reciprocity and centering sustainable authentic relationships requires great care, intention, time, and a clear strategy to execute. We describe how our intercollegiate and co-instructed…

This qualitative investigation of higher education institutional development addresses new universities that were former community colleges in the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. Stemming from an original study conducted nearly two decades earlier, this investigation's data were collected from the same institutions and from similar…

This book highlights the community building experience at Maricopa Community College District (MCCD) in Arizona. Sixty-five percent of upper division transfers at Arizona State University come from MCCD, and 80% of The University of Phoenix's graduates have done a major portion of their lower division work at MCCD. At any given time, 50 to 60…

Defines community-based education through the values it represents, upon which community-based college programming is built. Traces the concept to the beginnings of the community college movement and relates recent trends that have given impetus to the movement. (AYC)

Identifies challenges confronting community colleges entering the twenty-first century, concluding that dramatic changes in demography, social structures, and technology promise to shape a vastly different educational environment. Urges community colleges to address community problems and issues and empower citizens through the development of…

Identifies five building blocks for successful communities of the future and four required competencies for those who lead community development initiatives. Describes a cluster of four projects designed to test the theory that community colleges can be a major catalyst for community and leadership development. Presents questions that colleges can…

Argues that, despite the provision of community-based educational services, community colleges do not play a key role in social change in their communities. Reviews the history of community development in the colleges, suggesting that original goals were designed to be noncontroversial. Discusses increasing foundation support to address community…

Looks at the implications of various socioeconomic changes for community service practitioners, focusing on demographics and programming, fiscal restraint, public scrutiny and accountability, political activity, competition with the private sector, meeting tailor-made needs, leadership, and the skills needed by community service professionals.…

Discusses remedial education's relationship to inherent inequalities in American economic and social stratification, arguing that remedial programs often delay or hinder the entrance of educationally disadvantaged students into postsecondary curricula. Advocates community control of basic skills remediation and curriculum development as a means of…

Traces the history of the National Council on Community Services and Continuing Education from its formation in 1969 to its development in 1989 of a new policy statement for the 1990's. Identifies the social and economic forces affecting the community services/continuing education function. Notes the major components of the new policy statement.…

The past and present economic and social problems and cause-effect relationships are major factors in the development of education at the community and junior college levels. Internal redesign of public junior colleges during the 1960's and early 1970's transformed them from liberal arts institutions into administratively flexible institutions…

Discusses cooperation between community colleges and communities, outlining a view of the potential future of the colleges. Highlights the changing mission of the community college and suggests that it should be reconfigured into a comprehensive community education and service center to meet the needs of the future. (49 citations) (MAB)

Reviews reasons public and private sectors are turning to community colleges for leadership in nontraditional economic development programs, highlighting relevant social, economic, and educational trends. Considers the causes and impact of the economic disruption of the 1980's. Discusses the community colleges' unique place within America's social…

Discusses the socioeconomic effects of the shift from an industrial to an information society. Points to the community college (and particularly community services and continuing education) as the best vehicle to assist business/industry in the most effective use of human resources and the selection and delivery of information. (DMM)

Discusses the effects of economic, racial, and age diversification of suburbia; societal and institutional racism; reduction of college funding; and high minority dropout rates on community colleges. Suggests that colleges need new ways of collecting and analyzing data and two-way communication with their publics to reexamine how resources,…