Joseph H. Wycoff, PhD, is a researcher and educational consultant who has worked in academic, market, and institutional research. He holds a doctorate in US history with an emphasis on business and consumer history. His institutional research experience includes work at the University of Washington, an Illinois community college, and a private n.... more
Joseph H. Wycoff, PhD, is a researcher and educational consultant who has worked in academic, market, and institutional research. He holds a doctorate in US history with an emphasis on business and consumer history. His institutional research experience includes work at the University of Washington, an Illinois community college, and a private nonprofit institution in New York state. His work reveals that the organization and literature for the profession are deeply flawed, and he shares his provocative observations about the history of scientific research on higher education in Outsourcing Student Success.
Dr. Wycoff has presented independent scholarship at the Social Science History Association, Business History Conference, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, and New England Historical Association. He led research for the Washington State Governor’s Task Force on Virtual Education in 2002 and has served as an evaluator responsible for research design and summative reports for federal grants.
Joseph Wycoff's Projects
Arcane Cage: Being a Historical Narrative of Fantastic Events during the Decline and Fall of The Provenance
An untested, urban cleric who is charged with the investigation of a missing merchant at a remote ou... more
Honors of Inequality: How Colleges Work for Some
Higher education--as an organized discipline or field of study--is a relatively recent invention in ... more
Outsourcing Student Success: The History of Institutional Research and the Future of Higher Education
Colleges and universities have engaged in a bewildering succession of reform efforts to improve i... more
Joseph Wycoff's Services
Editing, Business
I offer freelance writing, including grant writing, proposal writing, white papers, etc. I also provide solutions for market, institutional, and academic research, inlcuding survey design, statistical analysis, predictive analytics (regression analysis), etc.
