Dr. D. Patrick Saxon is a Professor and Director of the fully online Developmental Education Administration Doctoral Program at Sam Houston State University. He has published extensively in the field of developmental education and is a coauthor of the book Attaining Excellence in Developmental Education: Research-Based Recommendations for Administrators. For 22 years he managed the research activities of the National Center for Developmental Education. He is the editor of Research in Developmental Education, a member of the National Association for Developmental Education Executive Board, and serves on the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of College Reading and Learning. He is an advisor for the Kellogg Institute at Appalachian State University and a consultant for the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2015, he was inducted as a Fellow in the Council for Learning Assistance and Developmental Education Associations.