Title: COORDINATION AND COOPERATION BETWEEN COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND COMMUNITY SCHOOLS IN SELECTED COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICTS

The most important purposes of this study were to: (1) deter-mine the extent of cooperation and coordination that currently exists in selected community colleges which have community school programs in their college districts, and (2) clarify the multi-roles of community schools and of community education in community colleges. Other purposes of the study were to: (1) examine the present educational philosophy regarding community schools and community colleges, (2) determine if duplication of programs exists, and (3) encourage educational administrators to develop a realistic plan for cooperation and coordination between community schools and community colleges. Procedures A. questionnaire with 46 items was developed to obtain opinions from educational administrators regarding organization, administra-tion, finance, instruction and the level of cooperation between com-munity schools and community colleges. The questionnaire was sent to community school directors or coordinators and community college administrators who supervised adult, community or continuing educa-tion. Five states were selected for this study--Oregon, Washington, California, Michigan and Florida. Each community college selected had at Least one community school program operating in the college district. Seventy respondents (35 community college and 35 com-munity school administrators) participated in the study by reacting to the 46 items which were assigned values of one to five on a Likert-type scale with one being strong disagreement and five being strong agreement. All items on the returned questionnaire were analyzed by utilizing the analysis of variance technique