Charles Wilson (economist)

Charles Zachary Wilson is an American economist who 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]

For other people named Charles Wilson, see Charles Wilson (disambiguation).
Charles Z. Wilson
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
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 to 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 8, 2021. Retrieved August 19, 2020. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. Jalon, Allan M. (6 May 2019). "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. 19 June 2009. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
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