PAUL R. BOWDRE
Assistant Professor
Homeland Security Curriculum Coordinator
Criminal Justice Department
State University of New York College of Technology at Canton
Canton, New York
Mr. Paul R. Bowdre has been an Assistant Professor in the Criminal Justice Department at the State University of New York College of Technology at Canton since 2011. Additionally, he serves as the Homeland Security Curriculum Coordinator, where he oversees the baccalaureate degree in Homeland Security as well as the Homeland Security academic minor.
Mr. Bowdre has more than 24 years of criminal justice experience, including 13 years as a police officer with the Town of Palm Beach, Florida, Police Department, where his last assignment was as a captain and watch commander. He was employed for 11 years as a law enforcement senior inspector with the Florida Department of Corrections Office of the Inspector General and as an investigative lieutenant with the Wyoming Department of Corrections Investigations Unit.
Mr. Bowdre has completed the Florida Law Enforcement Officer and Correctional Officer academies and has completed more than 6,500 hours of specialized training in such diverse areas as white-collar crime investigation, computer crime and computer forensics, homicide investigation, and crime analysis.
Mr. Bowdre holds certifications as a police officer, correctional officer, law enforcement instructor in Florida and New York, fraud examiner, and fraud specialist. He was employed as the criminal justice program manager by a Denver, Colorado, area college, where he established a criminal justice associate degree program and then as a criminal justice instructor and program director at a Nebraska community college, where he oversaw two degree and two certificate programs and a high school criminal justice career academy.
Mr. Bowdre received a B.S. in Sociology from Western Carolina University; an M.P.S. in Health and Human Services Administration from Lynn University; an M.S. in Criminal Justice Administration from Mountain State University; and an Ed.S. in Computing Technology in Education from Nova Southeastern University. He has also completed undergraduate and graduate certificate programs in the social sciences at the University of North Carolina and Lynn University; a graduate certificate in Community College Teaching from California State University, Dominguez Hills; a graduate academic certificate from Chadron State College; and a graduate certificate in Higher Education Assessment from James Madison University. He is currently a doctoral student at The National Graduate School of Quality Management, where he is studying Quality Systems Management with a concentration in Homeland Security and Defense.
May 28, 2015