Three people with ties to the UW–Madison School of Education have recently been elected to leadership positions for the Council or the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC) following the recent CSCC Conference that wrapped up in Chicago.
Xueli Wang, the Barbara and Glenn Thompson Professor in Educational Leadership with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA), was elected as the organization’s forthcoming president.
Wang teaches graduate courses on community colleges, mixed methods research in education, and assessment in higher education. Centering community colleges, her equity-driven scholarship spans a range of topics — students’ success and mental health; transfer trajectories; faculty development; teaching and learning; and educational change and innovation during times of crisis.
Nicole Contreras, a doctoral student with the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, was elected as a graduate student representative.
And Brett Nachman, an assistant professor of adult and lifelong learning at the University of Arkansas — who earned his PhD from UW–Madison in 2021 — was elected as a board member-at-large.
The CSCC is the nation’s leading organization dedicated to the study and practice of community colleges, with council members broadly inclusive of both university-based researchers and community college practitioners.