| Charles Z. Wilson | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Website: | http://www.czandcons.com/ |
| Field: | Education Economics |
| Alma Mater: | University of Illinois |
| Institution: | University of California, Los Angeles SUNY-Binghamton DePaul University |
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.
Born in the Mississippi Delta,[1] 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,[2] and later trained in Family Counseling at California State University, Northridge and Management for Entrepreneurs at UCLA.[3]
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]