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PAT
BOSCO
Vice president for student life and dean of students
Pat Bosco was promoted to K-State vice president for student life and dean of students in July 2008. His areas of responsibility include admissions; new student services; student financial assistance, including scholarships; career and employment services; housing and dining services; the K-State Student Union; university publications; printing services; K-State child care; fraternities and sororities; parent and family programming; student crises; fundraising; and general student life.
Bosco previously served as K-State's associate vice president for institutional advancement and dean of students, 1987-2008; assistant vice president for institutional advancement and director of enrollment management, 1986-87; assistant vice president for educational and student services, 1979-1986; assistant dean of students, 1973-79; and director of student activities, 1971-73.
He is a K-State alum, receiving his bachelor's in elementary education in 1971 and a master's in educational administration in 1973. He earned his doctorate in higher education from the University of Nebraska in 1982.
As an undergraduate, Bosco served as K-State student body president from 1970-71. He is a member of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity, Phi Delta Kappa educational fraternity and Order of Omega, and is an honorary member of Blue Key and Golden Key honor societies.
In 2004, Bosco was honored by the K-State Student Governing Association with the renaming of the area between the K-State Student Union and Seaton Hall as the Pat J. Bosco Student Plaza in recognition of his dedication, time and energy to K-State and to the enrichment of student life.
His many other honors include being named one of Manhattan's Most Admired People in 2004; the Robert S. Krause Alpha Tau Omega Outstanding Campus Leader Award in 2003; and the 2000 Excellence in Dedication Award from the Kansas City Alumni Club for his quarter century of administrative service to the university. He also is the recipient of numerous service and leadership awards, including K-State's Service to Students Award, and Delta Sigma Phi's Alumni Distinguished Service Award. In addition, he has served on the board of directors of several national, state and local community volunteer agencies.
Bosco's commitment to the profession of higher education and youth is highlighted in the many keynote addresses, workshops and conferences he presents each year.
K-State alumni named a freshman scholarship in his honor, and each spring the College of Education's School of Leadership Studies recognizes an undergraduate as the Pat J. Bosco Outstanding Student Leader.
He is an adjunct associate professor in the College of Education's Department of educational administration and leadership and has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of higher education administration, leadership and volunteerism at K-State for the past 25 years.
Bosco is founder and director of the Center for Leadership Development, a nonprofit consulting agency that provides services to business and government institutions, community agencies, national leadership groups, and colleges and universities.
He has volunteered in community youth activities for more than 35 years. His summer baseball and softball teams won Kansas state championships in 1989, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2002.
His wife, Susan (Ariola), a graduate of K-State with four degrees, recently retired from the Manhattan school system as an elementary school teacher and media specialist. They have two children: Christopher and Mary Catherine, both K-State graduates who live in Kansas City.
Bosco can be contacted at 785-532-6237 or bosco@k-state.edu.