Email:

beshearsAJ17@hotmail.com

Address:

627 Lake Point Bluff

Clarkridge, AR 72623

Phone:

Voice: (870) 424-3221

Fax:    (870) 424-4950

Office Hours:

(M - F) 10AM - 6PM CST

Other Information:

Prof. Michael L. Beshears is a retired Army Senior Noncommissioned Officer whose 20+ year career has taken him to numerous locations including three years in Berlin Germany. His vast military training includes: Special Forces - working undercover in various covert operations, as well as assisting other agencies in their performance of criminal investigations. He also has an extensive background in emergency medicine and intensive care medical treatment, as a special forces medic, emergency medical technician and licensed practical nurse. 

Prof. Beshears earned four college degrees while serving in the military via evening and night college courses. These include an Associate of Arts in General Studies, Baccalaureate of Science degrees in both Criminal Justice and Psychology through Drury College, Springfield, Missouri. He graduated with honors with a Masters of Arts degree in Health Service Management from Webster University, Saint Louis, Missouri. Presently Prof. Beshears is a couple of courses away from completion of a second Masters degree in Public Administration. He and his wife (pictured with him) are also actively earning yet another graduate degree in criminology from Indiana State University and upon its completion are considering a PhD, program.  It should be noted that he is recognized as a member of the National Honor Society and the American College of Health Care Executives. 

Prof. Beshears has twenty-six years experience as a judo practitioner and instructor, teaching numerous YMCA and youth group self-defense courses, to include a course for the Kentucky State Highway Patrol and other police departments. His intense interest and knowledge of the criminal justice field has been demonstrated in the numerous civic lectures and seminars taught to various police and community groups. He has worked side-by-side with Arkansas's local and State police in various investigations and is sought-out for his insight and knowledge in criminal justice, corrections and security. 

He has instructed undergraduate college courses in criminal justice for the past several years and is noted for his informative and enjoyable style of academia instruction both in the traditional classroom and the online classroom environments. His years of managerial, as well as actual hands-on experience and knowledge in relationship to criminal investigations, police and correctional operations coupled with an understanding of medical tests, surgical procedures, and the effects caused to the human body, due to various trauma induced injuries allows him to give his students an insight into various elements of criminal justice that few instructors can.