Ralph Begleiter is the University of Delaware's "Distinguished Journalist in Residence," teaching Communication, Political Science and Journalism. He joined the faculty in July, 1999, bringing more than 30 years of broadcast journalism experience to classrooms for students interested in international affairs and broadcast journalism. He holds an Honors B.A. in political science from Brown University, an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, and is a member of the National Honor Society, Phi Beta Kappa. He is a Trustee of Brown University and an adviser to the university's public affairs offices, and to the alumni magazine. He teaches courses in "Media & Politics," "Road to the Presidency" (on the 2000 U.S. presidential election campaign) and "Crisis News!" Begleiter was CNN's most widely-traveled Correspondent, having flown almost 2-million miles around the world with U.S. Secretaries of State and Presidents since 1982. His travels included visits to many areas of the then-Soviet Union, and to all of the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. Begleiter has also traveled extensively in Asia (including China, Vietnam, Mongolia, Japan and Korea), the Middle East, and Europe, and made less expansive trips to Latin America and Africa. He regularly anchored special reports and live coverage for CNN International, the world's premier international English-language non-government news service. |
