Mohammad Wasiullah Khan is the founder and chancellor of

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, a private, non-profit, non-denominational college based in

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's South Loop neighbourhood. He is also a veteran of the

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i educational system, working in the mid-to-late 1950s in Government College,

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, Pakistan.

Education and career

Wasiullah Khan, a Pakistani-American, got his MA and MEd Honors degrees from the

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and PhD in Educational Administration from

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.Profile of Wasiullah Khan on American Islamic Economic and Finance Institute website
Retrieved 2 December 2017 He had been a teacher and administrator in Pakistan before he came to Berkeley,

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in the 1970s. He has been an educational researcher in

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and became an Academic Dean in a minority college in Chicago. In November 1978, he held the convention of a planning group to establish a new, multi-cultural institution of higher learning in Chicago. In September 1980, after approvals from the state and federal agencies,

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started operations as a not-for-profit institution in Chicago.College Profile of East-West University, Chicago, Illinois on collegedata.com website
Retrieved 2 December 2017 In April 2000, East-West university acquired an 8-storey building as an extension of its campus. Fall 2003 student enrollment at the university was over 1000. Wasiullah Khan was the President of ''Pakistani American Congress'' (2005-2007).
Retrieved 2 December 2017

Books

Wasiullah Khan contributed to and edited a book, published by Hodder & Stoughton,

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, UK. He wrote an extensive ''introduction'' in this book: ''Education and Society in the Muslim World''. 5000

References

External links

East West University, Chicago, Illinois - official website
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