After 34 years of teaching at Wayne State College, Dr. Paul Campbell is looking forward to retirement in May.

He has taught undergraduate and graduate level criminal justice classes such as family violence, substance abuse management, community-based corrections and, occasionally, technology in society.

“We have students who could do ‘A’ work at any college in the country,” Campbell said.

He hopes that WSC can continue to work like this and says that it’s a good place to go to school.

Campbell has been involved with the Criminal Justice Association on campus and has been the Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE) fraternity advisor since 1980. He is now the interim advisor.

Campbell, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, was a self-proclaimed “army brat.”

While attending West Point, he played basketball or in his words, “sat the bench” with Mike Krzyzewski, the head basketball coach at Duke. Their basketball coach was Bobby Knight, whose coaching style he described in one word—intense.

Campbell said that West Point was an uber competitive school where prospective students were chosen to attend by U.S. Congressmen across the country.

Since he has taught at WSC, the criminal justice program has graduated about 800 students. His most memorable experience was getting to know the students.

“I like the fact that there is one door between the students and me,” Campbell said.

During his retirement, he plans to write articles for Humanities Nebraska and has a lot of books to read. Campbell wants to visit his family that is all over the U.S. and would like to go back to Europe again. He has a few others projects he’d like to accomplish.

“I genuinely enjoyed my 34 years here,” Campbell said.