Charles E. Young

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Dr. Charles E. "Chuck" Young is currently Chancellor Emeritus and Professor at the School of Public Affairs at UCLA.

Dr. Young, internationally renowed as a leader of higher education, served as President of the Qatar Foundation from 2004-2006. Located in the State of Qatar, a small peninsula on the west coast of the Arabian Gulf, the Qatar Foundation aims to develop and utilize human potential through a unique Education City, home to branch campuses of some of the world’s leading universities.

Dr. Young served President of the University of Florida from 1999 to 2004. Under his skillful leadership and guidance, a regional college with an operating budget of $170 million became a worldclass institution with expenses of $2 billion.

From 1968 to 1997, he served as chancellor of UCLA, a period during which UCLA moved into the elite company of the nation's finest research universities. His leadership at UCLA was distinguished by a commitment to excellence that pervaded every facet of campus life. It was under Dr. Young's leadership that the recently renamed UCLA School of Public Affairs was formed in 1994.

During his 29 years as Chancellor, Dr. Young made UCLA a partner with the Los Angeles area, emphasizing and building upon the key position of the university in community development and service, and championing efforts to reform K-12 education in Los Angeles. As a longtime member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Presidents Commission, Dr. Young has also been a leader in reforming intercollegiate athletics, raising academic eligibility standards for student athletes and curbing recruitment abuse.

Dr. Young is a former chairman of the prestigious Association of American Universities and has served on several commissions including those of the American Council on Education, the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, and the Business Higher Education Forum. Dr. Young is a strong supporter and advisor to the arts, business, education, finance, technology and health care industries. He has been selected to a number of boards of directors for finance, technology, and healthcare industries. These boards include or have included Intel Corp., Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management, the Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences Foundation, and the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. He was also a member of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee.

Dr. Young served in the United States Air Force during the Korean War. He went on to receive a B.A. with honors in political science from the University of California, Riverside in 1955 and an M.A. (1957) and Ph.D. (1960) in political science from UCLA.