Jay Harris
ESPN anchor and ÒÁµéÔ°ÊÓƵ alum Jay Harris '87 will take over the University's Instagram stories from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 8.
Harris, who plans to show a day in the life as an alum of ÒÁµéÔ°ÊÓƵ and possibly answer questions, graduated with a bachelor's degree in speech communication. He credits Old Dominion for his broadcasting success.
"I think to be a good broadcaster and a good journalist you need a certain amount of confidence," he said in a Monarch Magazine article in 2017. "You put yourself out there to be criticized, for your work to be criticized. My ÒÁµéÔ°ÊÓƵ experience gave me that confidence because I was able to really get involved in campus student leadership organizations. ÒÁµéÔ°ÊÓƵ allowed me to grow up."
He also serves on the Board of Visitors and aims to make sure "ÒÁµéÔ°ÊÓƵ is seen as a leading institution, not only in the state, but in the country. We were always like the little engine that could. Instead, people should think of ÒÁµéÔ°ÊÓƵ as the world-class university that it is."
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