One of the key services community colleges provide is community education, meaning those programs and activities that are often offered for leisure or self-improvement and not for credit. Programs of this nature are increasingly challenged to be self-financing, whether through user fees or externally funded grants. The current study explored 75…

To determine the level of involvement in service learning among community colleges, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) conducted a national survey of over 1,100 colleges in spring 1995. The following institutional and program profile, based on responses from 773 institutions, emerged from the survey: (1) four out of five…

THIS STUDY (1) IDENTIFIES MAJOR COLLEGE COMMUNITY SERVICES, (2) DEFINES THE AREA SERVED BY A COMMUNITY COLLEGE, AND (3) MAKES RECOMMENDATIONS FOR INITIATING AND OPERATING THESE SERVICES IN PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGES. DATA FROM INTERVIEWS WERE USED TO DESIGN A QUESTIONNAIRE SENT TO 90 PUBLIC 2-YEAR COLLEGES ACROSS THE NATION. TABLES DISPLAY THE REPLIES,…

Community Commons (CC) is a collaborative partnership among Brevard Community College (BCC) (Florida) and over 40 social service organizations and agencies in Florida dedicated to providing education, job training, social services, recreation, and a drug free environment to communities of low income families. The project specifically seeks to…

Describes the Community Gardens project at Worthington Community College (Minnesota). The college makes unused land available to community residents for garden plots. (JG)

Offers a rationale for interagency cooperation in times of fiscal restraint and enumerates the barriers that have stood in the way of effective community college cooperation with other community agencies providing similar services. Presents suggestions for nullifying these barriers and provides examples of colleges with successful collaborative…

Article focused on the concept of a cooperative and how it offers insights as to how a community college may work together with the community to develop a community-based educational program. (Author/RK)

Parkland Community College (Illinois) takes cultural entertainment to the community by traveling to the people. Local organizations, such as Women's Clubs, distribute publicity and sell tickets, while the college provides the programs, secures the facilities, directs advertising, and provides the sponsoring organization with publicity display…

Describes a program at Richland College, Dallas, Texas, which has successfully extended counseling services to all members of the community, without requiring college enrollment. (Author)

A collection of services designed to help colleges help the community. (Editor)

Outlines the development of a leadership-training center at James Sprunt Community College. A community-based programming (CBP) model was followed to encourage community input, support, and participation in the process. CBP is recommended as a way for other colleges to collaborate with their communities on issue definition and resolution. (VWC)

Continual monitoring of the community is required if community colleges wish to offer meaningful community-based programs. The college must also constantly evaluate the extent to which it achieves its community program objectives. (JDS)

Describes the author's psychology class, in which she required students to do service work with a resident in a nursing home. Reports that students met for a minimum of eight hours with the resident and wrote both a history of the person and a reflection on the project. States that half of the students decided to continue volunteering after the…

Tells how to plan a successful community forum. (DC)

Introduces the Human Resources Development Center at Richland College in Dallas, Texas which makes a variety of counseling services available to all members of the community, without requiring college enrollment. The center uses the team approach, whereby teachers and school psychologists work together to diagnose and resolve student/family…