A collection of essays presents the updated positions of nine critics of the community college who from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s participated in a debate with two-year college proponents over many of the fundamental assumptions of the community college movement. The volume contains: (1) "From Mass to Class in Higher Education," by William M. Birenbaum; (2) "Community Colleges and Social Stratification in the 1980s," by Jerome Karabel; (3) "The Devaluation of Transfer: Current Explanations and Possible Causes," by Alison Bernstein; (4) "Vocational Education: More False Promises," by Fred L. Pincus; (5) "Lifelong Learning: A New Form of Tracking," by L. Steven Zwerling; (6) "Minority Students and the Community College," by Reginald Wilson; (7) "A Place for Women?" by Marilyn Gittell; (8) "Independent Students at Two-Year Institutions and the Future of Financial Aid," by W. Lee Hansen and Jacob O. Stampen; (9) "Strangers to Our Shores," by Howard B. London; and (10) "Sources and Information: The Social Role of the Community College," by Jim Palmer. (EJV)