Outlines several survival strategies for community education contact persons in community colleges and community agencies. Poses 10 questions and relates them to situational examples providing true-to-life comparisons which can be used to identify a potential problem in an agency or institution. Provides a 10-point self-rating scale.

Examined community service programs to see if they continued to serve overall community needs in the Foothill Community College District (California). (Author/RK)

The author argues for development of community profiles to serve as the basis for value decisions and a system of participation accounting to evaluate the progress of the community services program. (Author/RN)

Cites and provides abstracts for seven ERIC documents from the junior colleges collection dealing with the planning, management, and evaluation of community services programs. (AYC)

Discusses the impact of Proposition 13 on community service programs in California and why the effects of the bill were so devastating. Describes a study conducted to establish a new, nonfinancial definition of community services and a new philosophical basis for and framework for self-evaluation of this community college function. (AYC)

Suggests that community college practitioners employ a guerilla mentality in dealing with the institutional accreditation processes to build support and to secure gains for the community services function. Delineates suggestions to community service professionals in preparing for and handling the accreditation visit to the advantage of the…

Article described community efforts at cooperation in a bilingual program. (Editor/RK)

Presents a nine-step effectiveness plan for the continuing education department of a community college: dream big; study the president's dream; dream a vision for the department; quantify the program's past; study the district; build an identity; plan a schedule of classes; conduct evaluation; and inform long-range planning. (DMM)

Details steps in a continuing education division planning model; i.e., define the planning group, develop a planning attitude, analyze internal and external environments, develop a mechanism for forecasting trends, hold planning sessions for determining strategic focus and operational plans, establish a timetable, hold follow-up/evaluation…

Maintains that managing change will be the foremost characteristic of college administration in the 1980s. Presents nine issues to be confronted by community colleges in the coming decade. Emphasizes the need to foster innovation and creative thinking in programs and services. (CAM)

Describes the involvement of the Moncton Campus of the New Brunswick Community College and Correctional Service of Canada in offering vocational training programs at Dorchester Penitentiary, a maximum security facility. Provides an assessment of the program from the teacher's point of view. (AYC)