Ethan Waples

Ethan Waples currently serves as Interim Dean and Associate Dean of the College of Business at Metropolitan State University of Denver since August 2022. Prior to this role, Waples was Chair of the MGTI Department at the University of Houston-Downtown Marilyn Davies College of Business from August 2018 to July 2022. Waples has extensive experience in academia, including positions as Associate Professor of Management, Director of the UCO MBA, and Chair of the Department of Management at the University of Central Oklahoma from July 2009 to July 2018. Additional experience includes serving as an Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University in Shreveport and as a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Oklahoma. Waples holds a PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of Oklahoma and a B.S. in Psychology from Baker University.