A survey of relevant research strongly suggests that the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) offers considerable potential for community college instruction. It has five main features: students move at their own rates of speed, utilize written study guides, demonstrate mastery of each unit before continuing, meet with proctors for periodic testing and feedback, and attend periodic lectures primarily for motivation. A typical course would incorporate these five main features and could work mechanically in subject areas from history and Spanish to psychology. Potentially serious limitations include instructor work load, study problems for poor readers, initially high start-up costs, and controversial grading policies. Personalized in the sense that it offers personal student-instructor contact, PSI is discipline rather than student oriented, with the potential for some group interaction, a reliance on written study guides as a means of instructor-student communication, and with the instructor's role not altered but changed in the way in which it is executed. PSI offers a way to organize instruction that will enable diverse groups of students in the community college to handle virtually any type of course at their own speed, and in a place of their own choosing. Although its potential is largely untested, PSI warrants serious consideration. (Author/LH)