Kalamazoo Valley Community College (KVCC), in cooperation with the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, conducted a comprehensive community impact study designed to provide information for planning and evaluating college programs and services. To discover KVCC's economic, educational, and social/recreational impact on its service community, six target populations were surveyed utilizing a variety of ramdom, stratified, universal, and selected samples: registered voters, KVCC faculty and staff, other area educators, area employers, civic leaders, and social agency directors. Additional appropriate information came from college records. KVCC was perceived as performing its role and serving the community in a very satisfactory manner by 96% of the 1,125 respondents; a very small minority indicated unmet education needs. Needs cited were generally specific to individual interests and concerns. Eighty-two percent of sampled registered voters who had educational contact with KVCC expressed satisfaction with their experiences. Ninety-four percent of employers employing people trained at KVCC rated the training as good or excellent. Respondents who used college services (20,000 annually) and facilities expressed high degrees of satisfaction. KVCC had a positive economic impact on the community; nearly six million dollars locally each year are expended with about three million funneled into the local economy from state funding. (Author/TR)