- Charles Haynie
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Charles Haynie (1935-2001) was a long-time faculty member in the State University of New York at Buffalo's Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Degree Programs until his death in 2001. He provided advisement, taught statistics, and engaged students in a range of popular courses about grass roots organizing for social change, 20th century political movements, the environment, and social justice.
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Tolstoy College
From 1969 to the mid 1980s, Haynie was the academic leader of Tolstoy College, also known as College F, which sponsored courses on left politics and social justice. Prior to Buffalo, he was active in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, working as a Field Director to register Black voters in Tennessee and Mississippi. Haynie left his doctoral studies in mathematics and engineering research at Cornell University to join the movement.
Political activity
Haynie was one of the "Faculty 45"—faculty members arrested during an anti-war sit-in in Hayes Hall in 1970.[1] He was a reform Democratic candidate for the Buffalo Common Council in 1979.
Memorial award
Each year the Interdisciplinary Degree Program offers The Charles Haynie Memorial Award to honor a student who exemplifies Haynie's commitment to social justice. "Charles is remembered by his colleagues because he cared deeply about each individual student and demonstrated this concern through his involvement in the university, the local community and the nation," says the IDP.
Personal life
Professor Haynie was working on his memoirs during the time he was struggling with cancer. They will be published in fall 2009 by the University of Tennessee Press.
Haynie retired in 2000 and died from cancer in 2001.
References
- ^ "A Stormy Spring" (Winter 2005). UB Today. Retrieved 2011-10-03
External links
Categories:- University at Buffalo faculty
- 2001 deaths
- 1935 births
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