Chancellor Bernie L. Patterson

Bernie Patterson became the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in July 2010. His distinguished career of service to higher education has included leadership both in public and private university settings. 
 
Prior to joining UWSP, Patterson was provost and vice president for academic affairs at Oklahoma City University, beginning in 2002. There he established the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, the Office of International Education, the Office of Instructional Technology, the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and the Fine Arts Institute. Other initiatives included the university’s strategic and tactical plan, campus master plan, assessment plan, summer reading program for incoming first-year students, enrollment management programs, faculty fellow program, visiting scholars program, national student scholar development coordinator, Phi Kappa Phi chapter, and a focus on faculty recruitment including an emphasis on faculty diversity.
 
Patterson also served as a dean and assistant dean at two institutions in the University of Georgia System—Georgia College and State University and Valdosta State University.
 
His professional activities include the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University, a Wye Faculty Fellowship at the Aspen Institute, and a Fulbright tour in Tanzania, Africa, in 1992. He has led or participated in international delegations to Belize, the Czech Republic, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Ukraine, Slovakia, the United Kingdom, and the United Republic of Tanzania.
 
Patterson holds a Ph.D. and a Master of Arts in criminology from State University of New York at Albany, an Education Specialist degree and a Master of Science from Central Missouri State University, and a Bachelor of Science in Technology from Missouri Western State University.
 
He now resides in Plover with his wife, Cinda.  He also has a grown daughter who attends law school in Oklahoma.