Charles Wilson (economist)

Charles Z. Wilson is Professor Emeritus at UCLA's Graduate School of Education. He was the first Black individual to serve as an Academic Vice-Chancellor in the University of California System, and was among the founders of the National Economic Association.[1]

Charles Z. Wilson
NationalityAmerican
InstitutionUniversity of California, Los Angeles
SUNY-Binghamton
DePaul University
FieldEducation Economics
Alma materUniversity of Illinois
Websitehttp://www.czandcons.com/

Education and Early Life

Born in the Mississippi Delta,[2] Wilson earned a B.S. (1952) and PhD (1956) in Economics and Statistics from the University of Illinois, completed post-doctoral training in Engineering Economics at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1959,[1] and later trained in Family Counseling at California State University, Northridge and Management for Entrepreneurs at UCLA.[3]

Career

Wilson taught at DePaul University's School of Business and then at SUNY-Binghamton, where he became the first Black full professor on that faculty. He joined UCLA in 1968 as a Professor in the Graduate School of Education. In 1970, he became Vice-Chancellor of Academic Programs, where he served until 1984. From 1985-1996 he was Publisher of Central News-Wave Publications, Inc, one of the largest black newspapers in the United States.[4]

Selected Works
  • Wilson, Charles Z., and Marcus Alexis. "Basic frameworks for decisions." Academy of Management Journal 5, no. 2 (1962): 150-164.
  • Alexis, Marcus, Thaddeus Spratlen, and Charles Z. Wilson. "Robert Browne and the Caucus of black economics." The Review of Black Political Economy 35, no. 2-3 (2008): 61-66.
  • Wilson, Charles Z. "Organization Theory: A Survey of Three Views." The Quarterly Review of Economics and Business 1 (1961).
  • Wilson, Charles Z., and Marcus Alexis. "Organizational Decision-Making"
  • Wilson, Charles Z., "Crossing Organizational Boundaries By Choice"

References
  1. "National Economic Association 50th Anniversary Celebration and Honors Luncheon" (PDF). January 4, 2020. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. Jalon, Allan M. "Why Did This Pioneering Trustee Leave LACMA And Place His Prized Collection With The Getty?". The Forward. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
  3. "CZAND ASSOCIATES". www.czandcons.com. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
  4. "Crossing Learning Boundaries By Choice". ourweekly.com. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
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