The community college, at its best, can be a center for problem-solving in adult illiteracy or the education of the disabled. It can be a center for leadership training, too. It can also be the place where education and business leaders meet to talk about the problems of displaced workers. It can bring together agencies to strengthen services for minorities, working women, single parent heads of households, and unwed teenage parents. It can coordinate efforts to provide day care, transportation, and financial aid. The community college can take the lead in long-range planning for community development. And it can serve as the focal point for improving the quality of life in the inner city.
We are convinced that, as we move toward the year 2000, strengthening connections beyond the college-with schools, industry, business, social agencies, and policy groups-will become a key strategy in the building of community. (Boyer & Peltason, 1988, p. 41)
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