Full Name
Mr Marco Anthony Krcatovich II
Job Title
Past National President
Company
Kappa Kappa Psi
Speaker Bio
Brother Krcatovich was initiated into the Nu Chapter of KKΨ in 2001 at the University of Michigan. He was a member of the Michigan Marching Band, served his chapter as Corresponding Secretary, and served the North Central District as Vice President for Colonization and Membership and two years as District President. At the end of his second term as District President, Marco was honored with the J. Lee Burke Student Achievement Award, in part for his work in changing the culture of district conventions and events by focusing on promoting education and leadership among all brothers, prioritizing workshops as a central feature of district convention, and making district business more efficient by streamlining committees and time commitments.Since his graduation from the University of Michigan, Marco has served as Colony Advisor for both Mu Epsilon and Nu Theta, installed numerous chapters in the last three biennia, served on the advisory board for the Theta Beta and Eta Gamma (TBΣ) chapters at Boston University during a difficult time for Theta Beta, and became an honorary member of both chapters. From 2011 to 2013, Marco served as one of the first National Vice Chairs of the KKΨ Alumni Association Board of Directors and, from 2013 to 2015, served as the third National Chair. Marco was the first brother to give the gift of Life Membership through the Alumni Giving Program (AGP), and has since gifted a second Life Membership to the chapter Vice President who educated him as a freshman. In 2015, he was elected National Vice President for Programs and focused on simplifying the processing of awards, utilizing social media to increase interest by chapters in the Month of Musicianship, and promoting the AEA Scholarship as a premier program of the Fraternity. At the 2017 National Convention in Orlando, Florida, Marco was elected National Vice President for Colonization and Membership and focused his tenure on the implementation of The Road to Wisdom, the expansion of Kappa Kappa Psi to new campuses, the development of more Fraternity volunteers, and creating consistent and streamlined processes for discipline, colonization, and membership education.Marco graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Science, with a concentration in Meteorology, from the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering in 2005. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, where he earned a Master’s of Science in Education degree in Higher Education Management in 2007. After a few classes while employed at Boston University, Marco is back as a student working to earn his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Higher Education Administration from Illinois State University, with a goal of defending his dissertation in the spring of 2022.Marco currently serves as the Director of Institutional Research and Effectiveness at Governors State University in University Park, Illinois, and lives in the heart of Chicago, Illinois, near his partner, Oliver. His senior administration position includes supervising a dedicated research staff and student research assistants, producing federal and state reports which help ensure continued access to federal student aid dollars, and serving and chairing numerous university committees on strategic enrollment planning, student evaluation, effectiveness in university operations, student degree outcomes, Human Resources procedures and operations, and data warehousing management system development and improvement. He was recently appointed to a legislative task force (HB 4781) on College and Career Interest information sharing to address the flow of Illinois high school students to postsecondary degree programs aligned with their interests.
Marco Krcatovich