He is the longest serving president (1895 to 1923) in the history of Delaware State University,[1] a historically black institution of higher education.

In his young adult years, he earned a Bachelor of Divinity and a Master of Arts, both from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

He became a minister of the Methodist Church, through which he served in assignments in Orange, New Jersey, Wilmington, Delaware, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Jason’s presidency inherited the oversight of a 95-acre campus two miles north of the state capital of Dover, Delaware.

During the first year of his leadership, the college had only three faculty members – which included Jason, who taught Greek, Latin, Mental and Moral Science, as well as English Classics.

[9] Devoting part of the campus to farming provided hands-on education for students majoring in agriculture, grew produce to help feed the college community, and earned a modest revenue from surplus sold on the market.

It was under Jason’s leadership that the SCCS began manifesting extracurricular activities typical of college campuses.

[15] The SCCS’s first football and baseball teams were fielded during the 1905-1906 school year, and men’s basketball and track were played for the first time in 1912.