Jack Payne
Vice President for Extension and Outreach
Iowa State University

Address: 2150 Beardshear
Ames, IA 50011-2046
Daytime phone: (515) 294-4603
Email: jpayne@iastate.edu

Brief biography: Payne serves as director of cooperative extension in Iowa, which has programs in agriculture and natural resources, communities and economic development, families, and 4-H youth development. He also administers University Extension, which includes business and industry programs and continuing education offerings.

He came to ISU from Utah State University in Logan where he served as vice president for University Extension, director of the Utah Cooperative Extension Service, dean of continuing education, and was a tenured professor in the College of Natural Resources. He also served on the faculties of Texas A&M University and Pennsylvania State University, and spent ten years with Ducks Unlimited as their national director of conservation.

Payne has a bachelor’s degree in biology from Temple University, Philadelphia (1969); and a master’s degree in fisheries science (1979) and a doctorate in wildlife science (1983), both from Utah State University, As a wildlife graduate student, Payne had some of Aldo Leopold’s graduate students as professors and has deep admiration for Leopold, who founded the first wildlife department in the country at the University of Wisconsin.