Charles Haynie Memorial Student Award

Seniors and second-semester juniors in SSCIDP are invited to submit an application for the Charles Haynie Memorial Student Award. The award is given in honor of former faculty member, Charles Haynie, and includes a monetary prize.

How to Apply

Application Materials

Please complete the application form below and submit with the following materials:

  • A two-page typed statement that integrates a discussion of the applicant’s campus or community service activities with a vision of social change and social justice
  • Unofficial transcript showing an SSC major and a GPA greater than 3.0
  • Two letters of recommendation, submitted directly by the letter writers to sscidp@buffalo.edu

Submission Deadline

April 3rd at 5:00pm

Charles Haynie Award Application Form

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Please provide a 2-page typed statement that integrates a discussion of your campus or community service activities with a vision of social change and social justice.

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Please upload an unoffical transcript showing relevant SSC major and a UB GPA of 3.0 or greater.

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*Two required letters of recommendation must be submitted directly by the letter writers to sscidp@buffalo.edu. 

About Charles Haynie

Cover of Charles Haynie's Political Autobiography.

A Memoir of the New Left: The Political Autobiography of Charles A. Haynie

Professor Charles Haynie was a long-time faculty member in the Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Degree Program. He provided advisement, taught statistics and engaged students in a range of popular courses about grassroots organizing for social change, 20th century political movements and social justice.

From 1969 to the mid-1980s, Prof. Haynie was the academic leader of Tolstoy College, which sponsored courses on left politics and social justice. Before that he was active in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, working to register black voters in Tennessee and Mississippi.

Prof. Haynie is remembered by his colleagues for caring deeply about each individual student, and for his long history of engagement in the university, the local community and the nation. He passed away in July 2001 at the age of 65. The Charles Haynie Memorial Award is given to students who exemplify Prof. Haynie’s commitment to social justice and responsible citizenship.