| Summary: | Academic administrator Wayne D. Watson was born on September 1, 1945, in Chicago, Illinois. He attended St. Raphael and St. Brendan elementary schools, where he excelled at high school wrestling. He won the junior college wrestling championship and earned his A.A. degree at Joliet Junior College. He received his B.A. degree in education in 1968; his M.A. degree in education and sociology in 1970; and his Ph.D. degree in education administration in 1972 all from Northwestern University. Then Watson taught at Shaw University, worked as general manager of Wheeler Airlines and was headmaster of Boggs Academy. In 1978, he returned to Chicago to Malcolm X College, the City Colleges of Chicago, Harold Washington College and Kennedy-King Colleges before being named chancellor of the City Colleges of Chicago in 2009, where he led 170,000 students and more than 9,500 employees. Watson was honored by Northwestern as distinguished alumnus in 2004. He retired in 2017.
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