This exploratory analysis involved more than 300 publication abstracts, with special attention given to 100 documents selected from the ERIC database and published since 1980. Based upon their analysis, the authors define six primary author groups (or voices) that contribute to the literature on community colleges: community college faculty, community college institutional research staff, state agency personnel, national association staff, university professors, and journalists. The contributions made by each author group to the literature on community colleges are discussed. Based on their findings, the researchers assert the need for an annual synthesis of the literature produced by these diverse author groups that would be written by a skillful author and published in a journal read by a broad audience.
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