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Ryan learns from time abroad
■ EDUCATION: Professor
taught classes in Singapore
last term on a Fulbright
Scholarship
By Laura Cadiz
Higher Education Editor
Journalism Professor Bill Ryan
has always admired internation
al students who study in the
United States.
“Students who come to learn
from a different country with a
different culture and a different
language ... that’s a lot of baggage
to bring into a classroom,” he
said.
Last term he received a chance
to teach those who he admired.
Through the Fulbright Scholar
Program, Ryan traveled to Singa
pore last semester to teach visual
communication at Nan Yang
Technology University. The pro
gram, supported by the U.S. Fed
eral Government, sends a select
few students and professors to
universities around the world in
an exchange program.
In Journalism Professor Tom
Wheeler’s mind, nobody was
more qualified for the program
than Ryan.
“I don’t know anyone in the
school of journalism who works
harder,” he said.
From July to December, Ryan
worked in the department of
communication studies at NTU.
Along with teaching visual com
munication to undergraduate stu
dents, Ryan redesigned the
school’s handbook.
He also lectured to graduate
students in visual communica
tion and advertising at the Insti
tute of Technology Malaysia at
Mara .
The students were very re
sponsive to his teaching, Ryan
said.
“I got along extremely well
with the students,” he said.
“They don’t have a lot of visual
communication courses in their
school; I was doing something
fresh.”
Ryan traveled to Singapore
with his two oldest daughters
who attended schools there for
the semester.
Beth Ryan, a journalism major,
said the atmosphere in Singapore
was much more intense than in
U.S. schools.
“People are competitive,” she
said. “People started studying for
finals two weeks into the class.”
Ryan agrees with his daugh
ter’s observation.
“The students there are a little
bit more driven,” he said. “The
educational system is extremely
competitive ... NTU only accepts
the top 5 to 10 percent of stu
dents who apply in the country.”
But Ryan is the perfect candi
date to further challenge those
students.
“He asks a lot of his students,”
Wheeler said. "He gives tough as
signments and has high stan
dards, but I think that the stu
dents gain a tremendous amount
from his classes.”
Ryan wasn’t always doing all
the teaching, though. He learned
a lot, too.
“Being able to live in another
country, in a multicultural coun
try, was culturally remarkable,”
he said. “I learned a lot about cul
ture and religion.”
And it’s made him admire in
ternational students even more.
“It’s made me more apprecia
tive ... I now have more respect
for international students,” he
said.
Ryan said traveling to other
countries also added to his edu
cational experience. Thailand,
Indonesia, Malaysia and Hong
Kong were among the places
Ryan toured during the semester.
Bali was the highlight of the trip,
he said.
“Everywhere you go you see
something beautiful,” Ryan said.
"Even the rice fields are artisti
cally done; they really are things
of beauty.”
Ryan said he may return to
Singapore in the summer or the
next school year to continue
teaching visual communication.
“I had a very positive and very
profound experience in Singa
pore,” he said. “It really revealed
how small a place the globe is to
day.”
Campus: SFFR hopes to gain recognition
■ Continued from Page 1A
thinking and analysis, expression of informed opin
ion and informed debate.”
SFFR is an affiliate of the Campus Freethought Al
liance. The CFA is an umbrella group for secular hu
manist student groups in both high schools and uni
versities.
The Students for Freedom From Religion submit
ted the paperwork for official recognition as a stu
dent group Jan. 17. It is unsure as of yet whether it
will seek ASUO funding. Brewington points out
that SFFR’s largest current source of contributions is
the community at large, though it may also receive
funding from the CFA in the future if it becomes an
ASUO-approved group.
SFFR meets Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the third
floor lounge of Chapman Hall. Interested students
can look for exact dates at SFFR's home page
(http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~sbrewing/sffr) or
send e-mail to: sbrewing@darkwing.uoregon.edu.
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