Describes Vancouver Community College's development of a community education program in the district's multiethnic, low-income, urban North East Sector. Explains how the project changed its goals and emphases, how it spawned new projects, and how it declined. Sees a new cycle of community development and social reform taking shape. (AYC)

Article examined the role of the community college in developing community services. (RK)

Stresses the importance of a proper rationale for reorganizing or establishing community education units, which can serve as the basis for the goals, programs, and services of the unit. Considers the effects of a community-oriented rationale on college mission and institutional integrity, faculty/staff, planning and finances, and students. (DMM)

Highlights the paradoxical nature of several aspects of higher education. Characterizes the practitioners of community services and continuing education at community colleges as mavericks, because of their nontraditional responses to educational needs. (DMM)

Author suggests that many frustrations in program development can be eliminated by utilizing the critical path'' method developed by the aerospace industry. (CB)

Stresses the importance of a proper rationale for reorganizing or establishing community education units, which can serve as the basis for the goals, programs, and services of the unit. Considers the effects of a community-oriented rationale on college mission and institutional integrity, faculty/staff, planning and finances, and students. (AYC)

Provides citations and abstracts to seven ERIC documents dealing with issues affecting the management of community education/community service programs, including program development, funding, contract education, human services, and educational marketing. (DMM)

Presents the model used to establish and operate the Kalamazoo Valley Community College (KVCC) Foundation. Describes KVCC, the selection of the foundation board and individuals to serve as fund raisers, the identification of businesses and industries serving the community, and foundation-funded activities and programs. (DMM)

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

Provides a retrospective account of the author's first years as the first chief administrator for a community college community services program. Describes how those initial experiences in program development resulted in an understanding of the importance of the community services mission that lasted throughout a 20-year career. (DMM)

Outlines pertinent autobiographical factors related to subsequent community services/continuing education experiences in establishing legitimacy, identifying resources, promoting cooperation and participation inside and outside the institution, using help, involving the president and faculty, and achieving early visible success. Offers guidance…

The future of community services in the community college isn't so bright says the Director of the ERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges. (Editor/CB)

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)

Article attempted to define "community services" from information obtained through six regional voluntary accrediting associations. It presented a suggestive list of community services appropriate to community colleges. (Author/RK)

Identifies a number of challenges facing the community services profession in the coming years, including not overextending itself; not working at cross purposes with other groups within or outside of the college; making community services more developmental; and building a sense of community within the field. (DMM)