Charles E. Young, the fiery, fiercely outspoken chancellor of UCLA, was credited with turning the campus into an academic powerhouse. He died of natural causes at his Sonoma home.
Charles E. Young, the fiery, fiercely outspoken chancellor of
Chancellor Gene Block said in a statement announcing Young's death. When Young started in the job at the age of 36 in 1968, he was the youngest chancellor in University of California history. When he retired in 1997, he would be one of the longest-serving leaders of an American university. — only eight years before becoming the campus' chancellor — but he had little or no work published in academic journals. “Young makes no pretense of being a scholar,” said a 1968 article in Time magazine about his selection by the Board of Regents to head
athletic events, rarely missing a home football or basketball game. Early on, Young earned praise for his sympathetic handling of student unrest. A few months after he became chancellor, two student members of the Black Panther Party were killed on campus in an alleged dispute over the leadership of the Black Studies Center. Young helped calm the jittery school. Later, during Vietnam War protests, he refused to allow police to clear out students who had occupied administration offices.
vice chancellor, was prosecuted, fired and forced to repay the university's fund-raising foundation $85,000 in disallowed expenses. Investigations found no impropriety by Young in that episode or with
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