This inaugural journal issue presents the perspectives of Massachusetts Bay Community College's faculty, administrators, and students on various aspects of community college education as practiced at the college. The journal contains the following articles: (1) "Adult Second Language Beginning Reading," by Ann Hilferty; (2) "Making Education a Dialectical Process: Application of the Writing Center Model to the Creation of a New Learning Environment," by Joseph Saling; (3) "My Sessions in Peer Tutoring," by David Sharifi; (4) "A Community of Teachers and Learners," by Susan Andrien; (5) "A Case for Collaborative Inquiry and Dissent," by Eleanor A. Smith; (6) "Developing a Passion(?) for Writing Accounting!" by Philippe L. Joyal; (7) "An Experiment in Right Writing," by Jennifer Hicks; (8) "Charting a 'Course' in the ESL Classroom," by Elaine Wilson; (9) "Collaborative Project Work and the ESL Lab," by Glenn Gabbard; (10) "A Little Light on Poetry from Hawthorne," by Harold White; (11) "Classroom Coexistence: Written and Oral Communication," by Cynthia Lawton; (12) "Confessions of a (Former) Remedial Lady," by Susan Andrien; (13) "Andragogy, Self-Directed Learning and Critical Thinking," by James E. Wright; (14) "Mock Depositions Benefit Everyone," by Elizabeth O. Bailey and Deborah A. Brodeur; (15) "Why Seek NSRA (National Shorthand Reporters Association) Approval?" by Ann M. Farrey-Hart; and (16) "Adventures in Culture Sharing: Promoting the Mission of the Community College," by Cynthia R. Butters. (JMC)