A study was conducted at a small community college in northern California to examine faculty use of microcomputers for instruction and to investigate faculty attitudes toward computer-assisted learning, computer-related staff development activities, and imminent social changes and the implications of these changes for postsecondary education. The study employed a phenomenological approach involving in-depth interviews with 24 full-time faculty members and participant observations. Study findings included the following: (1) all but three of the full-time faculty members indicated that they had some recent experience with computers, either by taking courses or attending conferences or through informal introduction by a friend or colleague; (2) 12 faculty members currently used computers either in their school work or for personal use; (3) faculty experience with computers before the college purchased microcomputers in 1981 was very limited; (4) the major actual or planned instructional applications of computers by the faculty members included computer-assisted instruction, drill and review, simulations, word processing, information retrieval, testing, grading, record keeping, and research; and (5) faculty members in English/basic skills, mathematics, biology, and art were the college's most frequent instructional computer users. The study report includes a literature review, a discussion of the implications of the study findings for staff learning, the interview schedule, and an extensive bibliography. (EJV)