Stan Leroy Wilson Stan LeRoy Wilson is Professor Emeritus at the College of the Desert. He holds a doctorate from the University of Southern California and earned his bachelors and masters degrees from California State Universities, Fresno and Stanislaus. In addtion to a 34-year teaching career at California State universities and community colleges, he has worked as a newspaper and radio journalist, a public relations consultant, and as the four term mayor of Palm Desert California. Read More Read Less