Charles N. Millican

As a young man, he worked as a part-time reporter for Dun & Bradstreet while earning a Bachelor of Science degree in business and religion from Union University.

But, he returned to Jackson, Mississippi, to serve as a coordinator for the 44th College Training Detachment of the United States Army Air Forces from 1943 to 1945.

[2] Millican returned to school, and in 1946 earned his Master of Arts degree in economics from George Peabody College, then joining the Commerce Department at his alma mater Union University.

Millican joined the university faculty, and was appointed the assistant dean of the Warrington College of Business Administration in 1956.

Millican returned to serve the University in 1993 as president emeritus and special assistant to the chief executive officer of the UCF Foundation.