Bosrock’s résumé includes positions as vice president for the Asia Pacific region at Vadnais Heights–based H. B. Fuller, vice chairman of the Minnesota World Trade Center Corporation in St. Paul, and a member of several boards related to international business. In 1999, he was named to the John H. Myers Chair in Management at St. John’s University in Collegeville, which he held until August 2005.
“I realized that there is an enormous need for understanding what’s going on in this world, and that we have a long way to go to help students look at the world differently. The thrill of teaching is the opportunity to see firsthand, on the spot, the moment something you say clicks in a student’s mind, that you have struck a chord. In the business world, something might take a year to come to fruition; in the classroom, if you’re teaching something important and exciting, when students understand what you’ve said, you can see that you have made some progress.
In my experience of teaching for six years and having students graduate and come back to me by e-mail, I realize that the natural evolution has taken place. The student has now become the teacher, telling me about what is going on in the world. Now I’ve become the student.”
