The first issue of this semi-annual journal features presentations and papers from the sixth Annual Virginia Community Colleges Association Convention held November 17-18, 1988, including the following: "Community College Mission: An Ideology Out of Balance," by Darrel Clowes and Bernard H. Levin; "The Bottom of the Blind Man's Cup," a poem by T. J. Miller; "Developing Environmental Scanning/Forecasting Systems to Augment Community College Planning," by James L. Morrison and William G. Held; "The One-Room Schoolhouse Revisited," by Thomas H. Cook; "Student Educational Outcomes Assessment: Faculty Control of Curricular Change," by Bernard H. Levin, Metro Lazorack, and James C. Sears; "Virginia's Community Colleges and Public Schools Working Together to Reduce School Dropout Rates," by Karen A. Noel, Stephen R. Parson, and W. Robert Sullins; "Genesis, Continued," a poem by Jim Martin; and abstracts from the 1988 convention. The second issue includes the following papers: "Beyond the Mission: A Model External Funding Program," by Diana D. Hardison and Charles R. King; "Project ACHIEVE Focuses on Cooperation for Client Transition to College," by Quintin S. Doromal, Jr., and Lisa D. Gregory; "The Minority Opportunity Center for Science and Mathematics at Southside Virginia Community College," by Donald R. Spell and Linda G. Sheffield; "Title III Faculty Development Programs at Wytheville Community College," by Phyllis C. Ashworth and Thomas E. Ashworth; "An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Humanities in the Vocational Curriculum," by Sally F. Nelson, Joel C. Tate, and Suzanne S. Hintz; "Focus on the Learning Disabled: Working with the Learning Disabled College Student," by Marlene Herakovich and Jeananne Dixon; "Developing an Environmental Scanning/Forecasting System to Augment Community College Planning: Implications from a Seminar," by James L. Morrison. Three book reviews are also included in this issue. (JMC)