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| Dr. Charles E. Young |
 Dr.
Charles E. Young was Chancellor of UCLA from September 1, 1968 through June,
1997. At age 36, he was the youngest person ever to head a University of
California campus and retired with the longest tenure as chancellor in the
system's history. He has been instrumental in lifting the Westwood campus
to the company of elite research universities. During his tenure, the school
has put together a distinguished faculty that ranks with those at Harvard,
Yale, Stanford, and UC Berkeley. Young was born in San Bernardino and attended
San Bernardino High. His studies at Valley College (1948-49) had a rocky
start but following his return to campus (1952-53) from military service
(the Korean War) his academic achievement soared. He received his associate's
degree at Valley and transferred to the University of California at Riverside
where he was the campus's first student body president. He graduated with
honors (1955) and enrolled at UCLA in political science, earning a Doctor
of Philosophy in1960. In that year, he accepted an appointment to UCLA as
assistant to the chancellor and professor of politics and has been there
ever since. Chancellor Young was a member of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing
Committee and has been active in improving understanding and relations between
the United States and nations of the Pacific Rim. Being the chief executive
of a campus with 30,000 plus students and different constituencies with
different priorities has been challenging, but Young has met the challenge
with a combination of intelligence, a deep appreciation of academic values,
and an unflagging commitment to UCLA. Dr. Young was inducted into the Valley
College Alumni Hall of Fame in 1989. |
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