Countries worldwide have continued to establish adult education classes since the rise of the idea in the 70s. Taiwan, though, hasn't made much substantial progress in this area. Community colleges, with their aim to provide "continuing higher education," partly came about in an effort to correct that deficiency, but they're also part of a global trend in higher education provision.
尤其七○年代終身教育理念風行以後，世界各國陸續建立成人高等教育，而台灣在成人高等教育領域卻少有建樹，社大定位在「終身學習型的高等教育」，一方面是彌補這個缺憾，一方面也是因應目前世界高等教育的新趨勢。