Marketing and Communications

Greg Conroy began his journalism career in 1972 as a news anchor for KWMU-FM at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where he also graduated in 1974. After graduation, Greg switched to print journalism as a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and then for the Bloomington (IL) Daily Pantagraph. In 1984, he joined the St. Louis Globe-Democrat staff but left in 1986 when the newspaper folded after more than 130 years of daily publication. He joined SIUE in 1988 as a public information specialist for what was then known as University News Services (UNS). Greg earned a master’s in English and American literature at SIUE in 1997. The following year, UNS became the Office of Public Affairs to encompass more of a marketing approach. After 16 years in broadcast and newspaper reporting and editing, as well as nearly 20 years in higher education communications and marketing, Greg has developed a rapport with the media that helps maintain the image of SIUE as a premier metropolitan university.