ABSTRACT
'Student community action' is a fairly recent addition to the jargon of educational debate, but in the late 1960s and early 1970s its protagonists have established themselves as a significant element within the British student movement. Most student community activists, it is fair to say, are probably committed to a belief in the need for fairly fundamental changes in the total pattern of society, including a far greater measure of control by ordinary citizens over the decisions which critically affect their lives. Many US colleges, at any rate those operated under public auspices, have always had an element of community orientation in their character, deriving from the limited geographical area from which a majority of their students are drawn and the local origin of their administration and finance. A principal category of projects consists of those in which efforts have been made to secure access by community organisations and groups to resources and facilities possessed by colleges themselves.
