Former UCLA Chancellor Returns to Teach Politics

A historic presidential election deserves a legendary professor to teach about the history of the presidency, right?

Charles E. Young, credited with transforming the University of California at Los Angeles into a world-class research institution, has returned to teach at the campus where he served for 30 years as chancellor before retiring in 1997, reports the Los Angeles Times.

Mr. Young, 76, holds a weekly, three-hour course that examines the nation’s highest elected office from George Washington to George W. Bush, as well as the current election.

“I thought to do just the current election would have insufficient substance and get to be just a bull session,” Mr. Young told the newspaper.