Student Services in Washington Community Colleges: A Practitioner’s Perspective

Abstract

This dissertation contains a description and analysis of the author’s participation in a three-year doctoral project as the editor of a Washington State publication on Student Services in Community Colleges. The report contains a narrative of the author’s experience and developmental journey with the project. The resulting publication, Student Services in Community and Technical Colleges: A Practitioner’s Guide (4th Edition) is included, in its entirety, as an appendix to this report with the generous support of the publishers, the Washington State Student Services Commission. This report analyzes the current state of practitioner-based research in community college student services in Washington and culminates with suggestions made by the author in the event the publishers choose to pursue a fifth edition of this decennial publication.