Community colleges serve a unique purpose in American higher education. For many students, these institutions present the best opportunity for the postsecondary credential needed to pursue a living-wage job with career potential. For others, a community college represents the gateway to a four-year institution or beyond, and potential career paths…

Public health education is not just for graduate students anymore. The movement toward integrating public health into the education of undergraduates is rapidly evolving. Healthy People, a public-private consortium of more than 400 health-related organizations, has proposed an objective for 2020 that could dramatically increase public health…

In the interest of itself, students, and the community, each college should develop a health program which defines the health needs of students, faculty, and staff and which makes a genuine attempt to meet these needs. This article presents a model which emphasizes not the direct provision of medical care but the assurance that those in need of…

Considers the need for Black persons as health care professionals and the roles that two year colleges and their personnel must play. (Author/RK)

Proceedings of a 1984 workshop on the roles of U.S. colleges in community health care are presented. The objective was to identify common aspects of the experiences of a sample of U.S. colleges that might be relevant to providing health service programs that are in accord with the World Health Organization (WHO) initiative of Health for All by the…