sentences:  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.He would move south to Gainesville, Florida, in 1948, to earn a Ph.D. in business finance and economics from the University of Florida.Millican joined the university faculty, and was appointed the assistant dean of the Warrington College of Business Administration in 1956.