Charles E. "Chuck" Sauders received the "Excellence in Education" award from Ball State University on Aug. 10.
Only three awards are given each year for the best teachers selected by the 1,300 students enrolled in the program.
Sauders teaches American history for Ball State and Grace College in the Indiana prison system. Sauders has taught in the prison system for five years.
Sauders is retired from the public schools after teaching with Fairfield Community Schools for 34 years, and being principal of Silver Lake Elementary School in Warsaw Community Schools for two years.
Sauders is a 1968 Grace College graduate. He earned his master's degree in American history from Saint Francis University, and did further graduate study at Ball State.
He is married and has two daughters and two grandchildren.
