Parkland College, in Illinois, has taken a proactive approach to responding to the multicultural and international challenges facing all community colleges. The action has been spurred by national indicators that suggest that the nation's workforce is becoming older, is being comprised of more female members, is including more members from traditionally minority groups, and will include jobs requiring higher skill levels. The college's approach was also based on a review of local conditions, including Parkland's mission and objectives and changing demographics of the community, students, and faculty and staff. The resulting initiative called for changes in the following areas: (1) school policies and procedures to eliminate exclusive policies; (2) school culture and the hidden curriculum (i.e., the underlying attitudes transmitted to students), resulting in the offering of diversity training for students, faculty, and staff; (3) the dominant learning styles at the college, resulting in an emphasis on developing cooperative teaching methods; (4) language and dialects of the school where faculty and staff are being trained to become more sensitive to different communication styles; (5) community participation and input, resulting in new community television programing; (6) counseling, with peer counselors now being trained to respond to diverse personal and academic concerns; (7) assessment and testing procedures and instructional materials to eliminate bias; (8) the general education curriculum courses to address issues of race, ethnicity, and gender; and (9) the attitudes of college staff to increase awareness of issues of cultural diversity. (KP)