Episode 16: Marcus Jackson of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Welcome to the Director Download, powered by Campus Rec Magazine. It’s time to go behind the curtain of the director role and have honest discussions with leaders in the campus recreation industry. In this episode, host Grady Sheffield, the director of Campus Recreation at Towson University and the senior advisor to the Campus Rec Mastermind Groups, gives you the listener real and authentic conversation between himself and special guest Marcus Jackson, the director of Campus Recreation at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Jackson has been in higher ed for quite some time, but not all of it has been spent in campus recreation. He and Sheffield discuss this and the takeaways that have come from outside-the-industry experience. Further on in the conversation, Jackson shares on the team at Illinois and what makes them standout. He also pulls back the curtain on imposter syndrome, owning your vulnerability as a leader and what makes him thrive in his role as the director of Campus Recreation.