Emran Wasim Khan, Associate Professor
Stipes Hall 408
Phone: 309/298-3315
E-mail: EW-Khan@wiu.edu
Dr. Emran Khan earned his Bachelor in Social Sciences (BSS) with Honors and an MSS in International Relations from the Dhaka University, Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1979 and 1980 respectively. He obtained an MBA (Marketing & Management), from the Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma, in 1985. His third master's, an MA in Criminal Justice Management & Administration (1986), is also from the CSU. He earned his doctoral degree (Ed.D.) in Occupational and Adult Eduction (OAED) in 2001 from the Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma with emphasis in HRD. His research focused on Correctional Officer training in the USA.
Prior to teaching at Western, Dr. Khan was a professor at the Fort Valley State University, Georgia for two years and an instructor at the Employee Training & Development Center, Stillwater, Oklahoma for more than six years. In his 16-year correctional career, mostly with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, he has been a Correctional Officer and a Case Manager in a maximum security prison, a Probation & Parole Officer, and a Senior Probation & Parole Officer, a Grievance Review Officer, reviewing all levels of offender appeals, a Detention Officer at a juvenile facility , a Senior Correctional Training Officer, a Contract Monitor, and a Local Administrator of Community Sentencing.