A study to provide an empirically based conceptualization of the state directors of community junior colleges and their staffs was conducted. A questionnaire to provide information on the administrators was mailed to the state directors of 48 states. Questions concerned the length of time the director had been in office, the place where the directors received their degrees, the data about the position held just prior to appointment as State Director, salary ranges, accountability, most frustrating jobs, and long term professional goals of the directors. The second part of the questionnaire was directed toward a descriptive view of the staff. Information was sought regarding staff size, age ranges of the state staff, vocational backgrounds of staff members, titles of staff members, working relationships, committees within the staffs, and the make-up of the staffs. (CK)