Abstract
Community colleges have always been touted as comprehensive, open‐door, flexible institutions—characteristics that have regularly been viewed as strengths. Yet the group of functions, usually referred to as community education or community services, that has most characterized these institutions as truly community oriented has recently come under scrutiny. This scrutiny has called into question the mission of community colleges, as well as the fact that there are simply not enough funds available to service the total mission. The area that has received the most negative attention is community services, because of an inadequate definition for the area. The area also includes many functions that are activity and culturally enriching in nature and only casually approximate what one usually associates with educational programs. Should community services be limited to educational services? Should the educational services to be provided be broken up between those to be supported by funding agencies and those th...
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