Professor/chair/whatever here. We don't really compete at all. It's actually the opposite. I work really well with the CC dean's in my area.

2 year degrees serve many important purposes. Some of them are down after their degree. Others transfer to us.

The former aren't a category that are interested in another 2 years anyway. No big deal.

The transfers? They are awesome from an administrative perspective. They produce degrees faster, which is important if we want our universities funded. They actually cost less to educate.

The big problem is that more CC's offering 4 years (outside of some special cases) is that it would turn things from a productive relationship to actual competition. That is disasterous for both parties as we need both to exist and work together in a productive fashion.

There are tons of smaller issues, but the whole system will become even more difficult to work if the standard divisions disappear.