ConferenceonCommunityServices-NISOD.docVIP

Conference on Community Services Edmund J. Gleazer, Jr., President and the Community College American Association of Community Valencia Community College and Junior Colleges Orlando, Florida One Dupont Circle, Suite 410 April 19, 1974 Washington, D. C. 20036 BEYOND THE OPEN DOOR THE OPEN COLLEGE My job has been described as the wrapup of the Conference and conference topics and to indicate where we go from here. Please understand, I was told, that our definition of your topic is not intended to limit you in any way but to help us in our planning. I thank the planning committee for its invitation because I can think of no other topic to which I would rather speak than Beyond the Open Door  The Open College. My own thoughts and values, the stance of AACJC, and the demands and possibilities in the environment in which we live, lead me to say some things about the community college that have been waiting for an appropriate platform, and I think the yeasty sessions of this conference provide the right setting. In the after the boom paper I reported that in my view the community college is entering the third major period in its evolution as an educational institution with the approach to create valuesatisfying goods and services that consumers will want to buy. In the months since After The Boom first appeared Ive been listening to and soliciting attitudes around the field as to where we were goingnot just in reference to community services but to the very essence of community colleges. Running quickly over the variety youd naturally expect, I sense that attitudes reside in two prevailing camps: those focused on problems, transferring guilt etc., and those with their eye on opportunities. President A. Its the legislature. They wont give us the money for creativity. They like the universities better. . President B. Privately supported college  Its the public community colleges. They took our market, and the poor cant afford us. President C. Its the