Scholarship -- or, rather, the lack of it -- is a major weakness of the American community college. The most immediate problem the community colleges face in this area is that of developing a clear and meaningful definition of scholarship. Community colleges have paid little attention to scholarship for a number of reasons: (1) community colleges…

This issue of a quarterly journal, concerned with community colleges focuses on relations between community colleges and four-year institutions, their perceived differences in status, and approaches to overcoming those differences. The issue contains seven articles beginning with "Tradition and Transformation: Academic Roots and the Community…