Dr. James Perry
Dean Jim Perry has served as Campus Executive Officer/Dean of UWFox since 1993. He's one of the many “success stories” of the UW Colleges, having begun his undergraduate work in 1966 at another UW Colleges campus, UW-Marathon County. To this day, he credits the start of his leadership potential to two things in his life: being the Student Government President from in 1966 and 1967 at UW-Marathon County (an opportunity he would not likely have received had he not started at a small school) and being a baseball catcher from time he was 9 until he was 32 (Little League through the semi pro leagues).
Dr. Perry received all three of his university degrees from UW-Madison (BS, 1971, Zoology and Secondary Education; MS, 1973, Botany and Zoology; Ph.D. 1982, Botany and Plant Pathology). His post-doctoral experience includes participation in the Harvard Institute of Educational Management. Upon completion of his MS, he served as a non-instructional academic staff member in Botany at UW-Madison. In 1983 he took a faculty position at Frostburg State University in the University System of Maryland, where he became a tenured professor and chair of the Department of Biology, Wildlife and Fisheries, was active in statewide faculty governance organizations, served as Chair of the Faculty, and was awarded FSU's 1987 Faculty Achievement Award in Teaching.
Perry's academic expertise is in ultrastructural plant anatomy. He worked on the plant tissues involved in long distant transport of the products of photosynthesis, and vascular wilt diseases. He is co-author of three laboratory texts, three photo atlases of biological subjects, and a number of scientific articles relating to his expertise.
Within the University of Wisconsin Colleges Dr. Perry holds the rank of tenured Professor of Biological Sciences and still teaches General Botany each spring semester. He is active on a host of non-profit boards in the greater Fox Cities community. For his work in creating the Barlow Planetarium, he received the 1999 Pinnacle Award from the Fox Cities Convention and Visitor's Bureau.
Dean Perry, his spouse Joy Perry, and their German shorthaired pointer Shooting Starr's Teasel share forty acres of Winnebago farmland and ninety-nine wooded acres in Iron County. Perry is an eclectic individual whose somewhat restricted personal life focuses on activities that would be expected from an individual who grew up in northern Wisconsin - hunting, dog training, old cars and tractors, and do-it-yourself projects that he should not undertake. He's equally comfortable in overalls under a car and attending Broadway theatre, and enjoys the diversity of friendships with people from all walks of life.
For more information, you can visit his faculty website at the following address: http://www.uwfox.uwc.edu/academics/depts/foxteach/james.perry.html.