A statewide survey of over 10,000 credit and non-credit students enrolled in 16 North Carolina community colleges and technical institutes in spring 1974 was conducted in order to develop a profile of these students and to analyze relationships between selected demographic, socioeconomic, academic, and educational program area variables. Among the conclusions reached were: (1) the current concept of the community college is inadequate and needs reconsideration, taking the increasing numbers of "new" students into account; (2) the state's community colleges and technical institutes tend to live up to their claim as "people's colleges", but only when all students (credit, non-credit, full-time, part-time, and extension) are considered together; (3) the colleges are moving to serve a broader cross-section of the population; (4) community colleges represent a major social force in providing educational opportunities; (5) students in different educational programs learn of program offerings and are influenced to enroll in particular institutions in different ways; (6) the charge that community colleges/technical institutes have socially stratified educational programs has some merit; and (7) the positive relationship found between student socioeconomic status and educational program area was neither consistent across all socioeconomic variables nor very strong. A study of the educational value orientations and of the institutional characteristics influencing college choice of the respondents is presented in the concluding section of the report. (JDS)