the first part summarizes its cultural basis and background of the times; the second part introduces the history of its more than one hundred years development; the third part gives a brief introduction of its functions, they are transfer education, vocational education, continuing education, remedial education, community service and general education; the forth part analyzes its characteristics of running school, trends for future development; the fifth part gives a thorough generalization of its contributions to massification of american higher education, they are : to enhance the enrollment of higher education, to make the structure of higher education into many-faceted, to consummate the function of higher education step by step, to promote the renewal of knowledge and the progress of technology; on this basis, in the sixth part, according to china's specific conditions of achieving the massification of higher education in two years, the paper gives an all-around analy sis and summary of the enlightens to our higher education from american community college, that is to say, the strategy for mass higher education must employ both pattern of connotation and that of extension, combine dimension expanding and structure regulating 第一部分總結(jié)了美國(guó)社區(qū)學(xué)院產(chǎn)生的文化及時(shí)代背景;第二部分介紹了社區(qū)學(xué)院的產(chǎn)生及其百余年的發(fā)展歷程;第三部分簡(jiǎn)要介紹了美國(guó)社區(qū)學(xué)院的六個(gè)辦學(xué)功能及其演變過(guò)程,即:轉(zhuǎn)學(xué)教育功能、職業(yè)教育功能、繼續(xù)教育功能、補(bǔ)償教育功能、社區(qū)服務(wù)功能以及普通教育功能;第四部分簡(jiǎn)要分析了社區(qū)學(xué)院的辦學(xué)特點(diǎn)及其未來(lái)發(fā)展趨勢(shì);第五部分對(duì)社區(qū)學(xué)院為美國(guó)高等教育大眾化做出的歷史貢獻(xiàn)等方面進(jìn)行了縱橫方向的概括,即增加升學(xué)機(jī)會(huì),提高高等教育入學(xué)率;促進(jìn)高等教育結(jié)構(gòu)多層次和多元化;注重社會(huì)服務(wù),使高等教育職能日臻完善、促進(jìn)了知識(shí)的更新和科技進(jìn)步;在此基礎(chǔ)上,第六部分結(jié)合我國(guó)將要在未來(lái)兩年內(nèi)實(shí)現(xiàn)高等教育大眾化的基本國(guó)情,全面分析和總結(jié)社區(qū)學(xué)院對(duì)我國(guó)高等教育發(fā)展的借鑒和啟示。