The final years of my formal education took place at Arkansas State University, which is located in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Despite offers from other schools, I decided to attend Arkansas State because I was really impressed with their College of Communications, which offers students a very "hands on" approach to learning about radio and television broadcasting. While many other colleges and universities made students wait a few years to work on-air positions, Arkansas State didn't have that. In fact, for most of freshman year I worked on-air and doing production work for KASU 91.9FM. It was impressive that the campus radio station was an affiliate of National Public Radio and featured news and classical music, instead of your traditional campus rock station. I learned a lot from Radio-TV Department Chairman Richard Carvell and professors Dr. Mary Jackson-Pitts and Mike Doyle. I also produced programs for ASU-TV. I graduated from Arkansas State on December 14, 2001 with a B.S. in Communications and a minor in Political Science/Pre-Law. I was proud to return to ASU in October 2011 to accept an alumni award, 10 years after graduation.