This historical publication was authored by Henry G. Cisneros, then Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, with research support from the Urban Institute. The report provides a brief profile of the community college, special challenges facing urban community colleges, hallmarks of best practices, challenges faced, and helps to convert best practices into common practices. The former Secretary concludes that urban community colleges hold the potential to help surmount the challenges of poverty and joblessness through providing skills and the aspirations for economic success.

This report is part of the collection of scanned historical documents available to the public.