ASU - Undergraduate Admissions - Leadership Defined

Perry Jackson

HOMETOWN  Hughes, Arkansas
COLLEGE MAJOR  History
PHONE  972-3024
EMAIL  perryjackson@astate.edu

Why did you pick ASU?
After serving in the United States Army Reserves and in the work force, I realized one of my most important life goals was to complete my college education. I was no longer the typical traditional student, but a non-traditional student with a family.  I chose ASU not only for the wonderful academic programs but also because of the services it offered to non-traditional students.

What is your favorite quote?
“To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.”  W.E.B DuBois

What do you love most about working at ASU?
The thing that I love most about ASU is that it takes a genuine approach in providing each individual student an opportunity to achieve their most desired goals.  As an employee here at ASU, it is a joy to know that I have a hand in assisting those students.  I realize not everyone will be doctors, lawyers, or teachers, however, ASU provides the resources and the opportunity for each student to be successful in their desired goals. 

What is your favorite hobby? Why?
My favorite hobby is spending time with my family.  With the activities offered at ASU and in the Jonesboro area there is hardly ever a boring week for our family.  Although I retired my own jerseys years ago, I now take pleasure in serving as the coach for my sons’ athletic teams.  Not only that, I have grown to appreciate the arts just as much as my wife.  Whether it’s football, basketball, soccer, movies, bowling, or plays, it is the quality time that I spend with my family that I most enjoy.

What is your favorite college memory from ASU?
I have many fond memories at ASU, but the one that I remember most happened in my African American History class when I met Ms. Minnie Jean Tricky.  Ms. Tricky made history as one of the nine African American students who entered the all white Little Rock Central High School in 1957.  These students became known as the "Little Rock Nine” and their bravery contributed to the ending of segregation in the Arkansas public school system.