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Charles Payne

Professor of Secondary Education Coordinator of Diversity In Teachers College

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Department of Educational Studies
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306

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Charles (Charlie) Payne is a native of Philadelphia, Mississippi where he received his high school diploma from Piney Woods Country Life School in 1958. He received his Bachelors of Arts Degree in Chemistry from Rust College, Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1962; a Masters Degree in Science Education from Tuskegee Institute (University) in 1966; and a Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.) in Science Education from the University of Virginia in 1972. He began his teaching career in an all black segregated school in his hometown of Philadelphia as a high school science and mathematics teacher at Hopewell Vocational High School. In 1966 he became a Chemistry Instructor at Mississippi State College in Itta Bena, Mississippi. He became an Assistant Professor at Ball State University in 1972. He was hired at Ball State specifically to create and develop a new minor in Multicultural Education, The Program for the Preparation of Teachers for Multicultural Secondary Classrooms, in the Department of Secondary, Higher and Foundations of Education in the Teachers College. At this time the concept of multicultural education was new, and controversial. The multicultural minor was one of the very first of its kind in the country, and the very first courses offered in multicultural education at Ball State University were in this department, and taught only by Charlie Payne. He is a full and tenured professor in the Department of Educational Studies. He is also an Assistant Provost for Diversity and Director of the Diversity Policy Institute, Director of the Multicultural Minor Program, and Teachers College Diversity Coordinator. Charlie Payne served as a national consultant in the area of school desegregation for over 30 years. He has conducted hundreds of workshops related to school desegregation and multicultural education with his greatest impact being in the Indianapolis area school desegregation implementation phase. His greatest interest in research and teaching is in the area of multicultural pedagogy. He believes strongly that it is the quality of instruction that determines the quality of student achievement. He has also served as a consultant in other Indiana schools with respect to racial incidents. In the area of scholarship he has written and published over 40 articles including book contributions and technical reports. He has also written numerous grants with 12 of them being funded. He received the BSU Outstanding Young Professor the Year Award and the 2002 Teachers College Outstanding Teacher Award.