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Charles Haynie (1935-2001)

Haynie was a long-time faculty member in the University at Buffalo's Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Degree Programs until his 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.

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.

He was one of the "Faculty 45"—faculty members arrested during an anti-war sit-in in Hayes Hall in 1970 [1]and was a reform Democratic candidate for the Buffalo Common Council in 1979.

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.

Professor Haynie was working on his memoirs during the time he was struggling with cancer. They will be published on the web in 2007 pending his survivors permission.

Haynie retired in 2000 and died from cancer in 2001

The papers of Charles Haynie are housed at the University Archives of the University at Buffalo. There is also an online finding aid available for his papers.

See also, the Interdisciplinary Degree Program website: http://www.cas.buffalo.edu/programs/idp/ugrad/news.html