Greg Brown:  

Life After high school, I earned B.A. degrees in history and journalism, joined VISTA (like a domestic Peace Corps, now called AmeriCorps) and worked in Kentucky. I was a newspaper reporter for seven years. Then, I got an M.F.A. in broadcasting/cinema at UNCG. I was public information director for Greenville, N.C.,(a BAD gig) before ECU hired me as student publications coordinator and media adviser. I supervised 150 students working at the twice-weekly newspaper, a 24-hour FM radio station, a quarterly minority students magazine, a print yearbook, a video yearbook and a photo lab. After that, I got a job teaching broadcasting and print journalism in the Communication Department. I tried to go back to school for a PH.D at UNC-CH. My first year, I had to teach four different courses at ECU, take three courses at UNC and make a four-hour round-trip commute three times a week. That was incredibly stupid. I left ECU and went to school full-time, but didn't like the public relations prog...Expand for more