Daniel Bureau

Associate Vice President for Student Well-being

Dan Bureau, PhD. serves as the Associate Vice President for Student Wellbeing at the University of Kentucky.  In this role, he is responsible for leading programs that positively influence wellbeing so that students can achieve their goals. He supervises Campus Recreation, the Counseling Center, Disability Resource Center, POWER (Prevention, Outreach, and Wellness Education Resources), TRACS (Triage, Referral, Assistance and Crisis Support) and the VIP Center (Violence Intervention and Prevention). He works across campus to help partners implement strategies to support student wellbeing.

 

Prior to his role at UK, Dan served in a similar role as the inaugural Assistant Vice President for Student Health and Wellbeing at Louisiana State University (LSU, 2021-2024). He has worked in a range of higher education functions over this 28-year career, including fraternity and sorority life, student affairs assessment, and serving in various roles on the leadership teams of Vice Presidents at the University of Memphis (2011-2021) and LSU (2021-2024). 

 

Bureau received his bachelor's in communications at the University of New Hampshire (1995), master's degree in Higher Education Research, Administration, and Policy at The University of Massachusetts (1998), and his Doctor of Philosophy in Higher Education and Student Affairs at Indiana University (2011). He is a well-known leader in the field of student affairs having served in multiple leadership roles in different professional organizations including serving as President for the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors (AFA, 2004), the Council for the Advancement of Standards (CAS, 2019-2021), and Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity (2023-present). He is the author of multiple articles, chapters, and books and frequent conference presenter.