Greg Slayton comes to CRC from Arkansas State University – Newport, where he instructed various math and physics courses since 2013. Since January 2023, he was the Mathematics specialist for ASUN’s Adult Education program. He also served as an Adjunct Professor at CRC during the Spring 2024 semester, teaching College Algebra on site. Slayton has officer duties in the Arkansas Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the Arkansas Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges. 

His wife, Joan Linnstaedter, is an English and Literature instructor on the Paragould campus of Black River Technical College. They have been married since 1990 and live on twenty acres in the Scatter Creek Area of Greene County.

Mr. Slayton is a graduate of Greene County Tech and a veteran of the United Sates NAVY. After his undergraduate studies at Arkansas State University, he completed Texas A&M’s alternate teaching certification program, and a Master’s degree at Penn State. He is a lifelong outdoorsman and is dedicated to community service.  He served as a board member and volunteer for Northeast Arkansans for Animals from 1997-2007, an Arkansas Hunter Education Instructor from 2002-2008, a member of the Greene County Single Parent Scholarship Foundation Board of Directors from 2012-2017 (President 2015-2017), and a member of the Arkansas Association for Developmental Education from 2013-2017.