Goodreads asked Joseph H. Wycoff:

What are you currently working on?

Joseph H. Wycoff I am working on the sequel to _Outsourcing Student Success_, another tone-deaf narrative that places the history of institutional research in the larger context of American higher education during the past 100 years. The rise and decline of institutional research over the past 100 years coincides with other tragic outcomes for higher education in the American nation-state. I originally intended to include four chapters on the consequences for college students and their families tied indirectly to the decline of institutional research. The denouement of the ninth chapter led me to defer those chapters to a later work and nest the history of institutional research in the loosely-connected prologue and epilogue about data science and the future of higher education. The prologue only hinted at the consequences for college-goers whereas the epilogue merely suggested the consequences for the discourse of higher education as a field of study. The second volume on this subject will be more explicit about both based on my further historical research and my immersion in the process and performativity that goes into the folly of data-driven decision making in higher education.

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