Patricia L. Busk, PhD, is lauded as an expert in methodology and educational statistics. With more than 45 years of professional experience, she has been a beloved professor at the University of San Francisco since 1978. There, she teaches courses in performance-based assessment and educational measurement as well as applied and advanced statistics. In addition, Dr. Busk instructs first-year doctoral students in a proposal seminar.
Earlier in her career, Dr. Busk spent a decade as a visiting professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, and worked for two years as an assistant professor at Michigan State University. For her body of work and consistent dedication to excellence, she has received multiple teaching awards, and she was honored with a mentoring and service award from the University of San Francisco. An accomplishment she is most proud of is her ability to collaborate with teams on dissertation research. Dr. Busk possesses an instinctual talent for helping teams formulate their ideas and effectively communicate them in writing, a skill that has been invaluable to her graduate students.
In strong preparation for her career, Dr. Busk graduated from Trenton State College, now the College of New Jersey, with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics. She continued her higher education at The Catholic University of America, where she earned a Master of Arts in statistics, before matriculating at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1976, she concluded her studies with a well-earned Doctor of Philosophy in quantitative methods and educational psychology. Deeply involved and a major contributor to her field, Dr. Busk maintains membership in the American Statistical Association, the American Educational Research Association, and the National Council of Measurement in Education.
Dr. Busk credits her success to the steadfast love and support of her spouse and her colleagues. Looking ahead, she aspires to continue excelling as a professor while helping her students pursue and complete their graduate studies.