{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} '''Mohammad Wasiullah Khan ''' is the founder and chancellor of East-West University, a private, non-profit, non-denominational college based in Chicago's South Loop neighbourhood. He is also a veteran of the Pakistani educational system, working in the mid-to-late 1950s in Government College, Sukkur, Pakistan.<ref name=AmericanIslamic/>
==Education and career== Wasiullah Khan, a Pakistani-American, got his MA and MEd Honors degrees from the University of the Punjab and PhD in Educational Administration from Indiana University Bloomington.<ref name=AmericanIslamic>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140823134517/http://www.islamicecon.com/dr-wasiullah-khan.html Profile of Wasiullah Khan on American Islamic Economic and Finance Institute website]}} Retrieved 2 December 2017 {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20230928231151/https://islamicecon.com/dr-wasiullah-khan.html (archived version)]}}.</ref> He had been a teacher and administrator in Pakistan before he came to Berkeley, California in the 1970s. He has been an educational researcher in Indiana and became an Academic Dean in a minority college in Chicago.<ref name=AmericanIslamic/>
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, East–West University started operations as a not-for-profit institution in Chicago.<ref name=AmericanIslamic/><ref name="collegedata.com">[https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=291 College Profile of East-West University, Chicago, Illinois on collegedata.com website] Retrieved 2 December 2017</ref>
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.<ref name=AmericanIslamic/><ref name="collegedata.com"/><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/east-west-university Economic diversity and student outcomes at East West University, Chicago, Illinois] The New York Times, Published 18 January 2017, Retrieved 2 December 2017</ref>
Wasiullah Khan was the President of ''Pakistani American Congress'' (2005-2007).<ref>[http://www.pacusa.org/Presidents.html Wasiullah Khan, President of Pakistan American Congress (2005-2007)] Retrieved 2 December 2017</ref>
==Books== Wasiullah Khan contributed to and edited a book, published by Hodder & Stoughton, Kent, United Kingdom. He wrote an extensive ''introduction'' in this book: ''Education and Society in the Muslim World''.<ref name=AmericanIslamic/>
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==External links== *[http://www.eastwest.edu/ East West University, Chicago, Illinois - official website]
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