Designed to provide information about the current status and future direction of Maryland's community college system, this report offers a summary and overview of all aspects of community college functioning in the state. Section I provides a general overview of higher education in Maryland, presenting a higher education organizational chart, a comparison of undergraduate credit enrollment to political subdivisions served, undergraduate credit enrollment headcount, and actual and projected Maryland births and high school graduates for the period 1964 to 1995. Section II focuses on fall 1987 enrollment, examining credit enrollment by transfer and occupational program area, credit enrollment by student status, enrollment by race, credit enrollment trends from fall 1983 to fall 1987, state funded credit full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollment, registrations in state-funded continuing education courses, continuing education noncredit enrollment by course intent, and FTE enrollment for state aid (1983-87). Section III offers information on student financial assistance, summarizing the number of awards, total funds, and average awards. Section IV focuses on degrees and certificates awarded in fiscal year 1987, while section V looks at revenues and expenditures, including costs of administering state aid, current unrestricted revenues, sources of support, and net cost per FTE student for fiscal years 1983-88. After section VI presents data on salaries and characteristics of college administrative and instructional personnel, section VII offers information on the physical facilities of the colleges. Finally, section VIII presents tables showing business and industry activities, and performance profiles for career credit and transfer credit students.