Clete Hassan Ladd

Professor, Clete Hassan Ladd has held Indiana English, Special Education, Alternative Education teacher's licenses and School Building Principal licenses. He has been in education since 1988. He was a teacher and administrator for IPS, taught, and led and helped start four charter schools.

His first post-secondary teaching assignment was at Indiana University COT (Community of Teachers). He has facilitated teacher education classes at IUPUI, Brightwood/Kaplan University. He has taught at Martin University.  He has been with University of Phoenix, College of Education since 2007 and was honored as Faculty of the Year for 2014. He has been honored by Butler University, Marian University, and is member of Martin University Hall of Fame.

Professor Ladd earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Religion from an international entity and for five years served as principal of schools serving hundreds of adult immigrants and refugees from 34 countries. He has taken hundreds of males through their rites of passage and led more than 200 students on "Pathway to the Promise College and Cultural Tours" visiting HBCUs and museums, and annually with Indiana Council on Educating Students of Color (ICESC) “Dream Catchers” to Selma to commemorate the historic voting rights march. He teaches culturally relevant history, from ancient Africa to the modern diaspora of Africans, and Africans in America.

He is a United States Army/Indiana National Guard veteran serving in Public Affairs. He graduated from the Defense Information School. 

Professor, Ladd is an author; his books on rites of passage help Black boys transition into responsible men. Other books and teach local and ancient African and African American history to our youth.

1. The Theology of Minister Malcolm X: An Afrikan American Rite of Passage (1993)

2. Afrikan American Male Rites of Passage: Theory and Practice, Vol. II (1995)

3. Afrikan American Male Rites of Passage: Reclaiming Our Sons, Vol. III (2017)

4. The Oral History Project: H.E.L.P. Honored Elders Leaders and Professionals of 46218 (2019)

5. The 28th Infantry Regiment US Colored Troops of Indianapolis (2022)

6. Dream Visit: Inside Ancient Egypt (2022)

He is married to Carolyn Cheatham (MBA); she is also a Martin University alum. Together they have four sons, four grandsons and two great grandchildren.