Spring 2027

The American Community College

Graduate seminar examining the history, policies, and contemporary debates of the American community college, culminating in a research study or policy proposal.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Xueli Wang

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 3.94 GPA, 94.1% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Understand the history of community colleges and their missions, policies, and programs

  • Develop a strong knowledge base of a broad range of contemporary topics and pressing questions concerning the community college and its students

  • Identify and elaborate on policies, trends, and issues that influence current community college education and discuss their impact on future policies and practices

  • Enhance expertise in one or two current research/policy topics on the community college

  • Cultivate the capacity to critically evaluate existing empirical evidence and to plan and conduct original research or develop a policy proposal grounded within sound evidence

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Graduate Students Only

  • Graduate Students Only
ELPA 878

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  • Graduate Students Only

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 3.94 GPA, 94.1% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

XUELI WANG is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 3.94 GPA, 94.1% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Governance, administration, faculty, advising, credential completion, transfer, enrollment, and developmental education
  • Student goals, aspirations, and the cooling-out versus warming-up effect
  • Contemporary topics and pressing questions concerning community colleges and their students

Skills

  • Plan and conduct original research or develop a policy proposal grounded in evidence
  • Critically evaluate existing empirical evidence
  • Identify and elaborate on policies, trends, and issues influencing community college education

Grades

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ELPA 878 · Spring 2027

The American Community College

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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