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.