These conference papers deal with many topics of current interest to community college educators in the United States and Canada. Subjects discussed include: staff development as institutional change; adult education; personhood development in the community college; community-based education priorities and alternative futures; community college development in Saskatchewan; future shapes of governance in community colleges; humanistic education; internal and external public relations in educational institutions; the experiment in participatory democracy at Dawson College, Montreal; and Project ARISTOTLE, a research project to design and implement a computerized data information system for management of training centers. Contributors include: George M. Delgrosso, Terry O'Banion, Alan Thomas, John Roueche, Gunder A. Myran, Lewis Riederer, Richard Richardson, Jr., Jeffrey M. Elliot, Charlie K. Field, Gertrude MacFarlane, and W. E. Sinnett and A. E. Jiminez. A list of Institute delegates is appended. (JDS)