William Julius Wilson ’66 PhD. (Photo by Stephanie Mitchell, Harvard University)
By Eric Sorensen, Washington State Magazine
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Week of events
 This article is part of a series in WSU News this week coinciding with events to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Office of Multicultural Student Services at WSU. For a list of the week’s events, go here.
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PULLMAN, Wash. – “Going to WSU was the greatest decision I ever made in my life,” says William Julius Wilson, one of the nation’s most accomplished and looked-to analysts of race, inequality and poverty, a MacArthur “genius” award recipient and holder of 45 honorary degrees.
“It was the greatest decision I ever made because that’s really where I developed the confidence and that’s where I really realized that I had special talents,” he says. “And that’s where I got the kind of solid training that has held me in good stead throughout my professional career, particularly my training in the logic of inquiry.”
Read the complete article about William Julius Wilson in the fall 2012 issue of Washington State Magazine online here.
And read here about others – many of whom went on to make major contributions in their field – who earned the more than two dozen African American doctoral degrees granted by the WSU sociology department beginning in the 1950s.