http://greginabox.com (this is the old site)
601-513-1833
Greg Jones, associate professor of digital communications, came late to education as a career, having spent most of his life as an entrepreneur.
He began his professional career as a director of circulation and marketing for four newspaper groups in the Southeast.
Since then, he owned a full-service advertising agency for two decades, served as webmaster for dozens of companies, created and published Southern Flyer Magazine and Cross-Walk newspaper, and owned a host of brick-and-mortar and online companies, offering everything from customized children’s books and toys to custom-imprinted specialty items.
He currently owns Flying Pig Brand, LLC, a full-service advertising agency, occasionally doing business as Whoopass Branding.
He also serves as director of UWA’s bby Publications, a supplementary K-5 math education curriculum and consulting company. He’s neck deep in rebranding its extensive catalogue to Anchor Math, focused on digital delivery of assets and instruction.
He delights in bringing his real-world business acumen and experience to his students who find his mistakes both hilarious and instructive.
He holds a bachelor of arts degree in English from the University of West Alabama, a master of arts in teaching from Mississippi State University, and a master of fine arts degree from Full Sail University in media design.
Every summer, he still teaches composition and literature courses, so he can expose others to the joy of the written word, while he tries to recruit students to the IMC program. His real goal, we suspect, is to discover and train the world’s next greatest copywriter.
Once, according to legend, Greg moved above the Mason-Dixon Line, but he returned home for the barbecue. Greg and his wife Jennifer, a talented business owner in her own right, live in Meridian, Mississippi, and have four children and one grandchild.
They hope to have more grandchildren soon. Well, most days, anyway.