Professor to become student during sabbatical
Kyu Ho Youm, who teaches media law, will pursue
a master's degree in legal research at Oxford
BY MEGHANN M. CUNIFF
SENIOR NEWS REPORTER
Every year, numerous University
professors take time away from
their work to further their
academic endeavors through travel
and research.
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professor Kyu Ho Youm will be
among them. Youm will spend a year
pursuing a master’s degree in legal
research at the University of Oxford
Faculty of Law. Youm has held
the School of Journalism and Com
munication’s John Marshall First
Amendment Chair since 2002 and
said he is looking to improve his
skills as both a media scholar and
professor while at Oxford.
“Basically, I want to do better at
what I’m doing,” Youm said. “I
have a pretty good record as a schol
ar over the past 20 years, but I know
I can do better. ”
Considered one of the world’s top
media law scholars, Youm’s work
has been cited by the United King
dom’s highest court and has been
published in the world’s most pro
lific publications. He has been a
professor for more than 20 years,
something he said makes him nerv
ous about his pending yearlong stint
as a student.
“Being a full-time student is quite
a challenge I’ll have to face with re
ality,” Youm said, adding that think
ing about the adjustment is “defi
nitely making me more stressed out
than absolutely necessary. ”
Experiencing life as a full-time
student is something Youm hopes
will make him more aware of the
challenges facing today’s students.
Charlotte Nisser, who has been
both a student and teaching assis
tant in Youm’s Communication Law
class, said his striking intelligence
and his sense of humor have served
his students well. Youm strongly en
courages communication with his
students and sees more to educa
tion than what’s taught in a class
room, Nisser said.
“He really recognizes that and
tries to get students to recognize
that too,” she said.
Journalism instructor David Ko
randa said Youm’s engaging person
ality and genuine interest in stu
dents and in spending time outside
the classroom with them have and
will continue to be an inspiration to
everyone in Allen Hall.
“He considers that time very im
portant,” Koranda said. “He’s been
a great mentor in that sense.”
Youm said the encouragement
and support he has received from
his colleagues at the journalism
school played a large role in his de
cision to make a long-term commit
ment to the University.
“I’ve enjoyed my life very
much, with extraordinary support
from my colleagues,” Youm said.
“My colleagues are very, very
friendly to me.”
In addition to earning another de
gree, Youm will conduct legal re
search, both of which will culmi
nate in a thesis exploring press
freedom from an international and
comparative perspective.
Youm said he hopes to incorpo
rate what he learns at Oxford into
his teachings at the journalism
school and to use his experiences to
help move the school to the next
level of excellence.
“English legal education is a lot
more global and international than
our American approach to legal ed
ucation,” Youm said. “I hope I will
develop some sort of international
comparative media law course
when I come back.”
Associate Dean of the journalism
school A1 Stavitsky said it has not
been decided who will teach the
Communication Law course while
Youm is away but said his absence
will require only minor alterations
to the journalism school’s course
schedule next year.
Sabbaticals are routine at the
journalism school and are strongly
encouraged, Stavitsky said.
“The experiences that the faculty
have while they’re away will ulti
mately come back to pay benefits
for their students,” Stavitsky said.
“Everyone wins in the long run.”
In a proposal letter about the
yearlong sabbatical to Tim Gleason,
dean of the journalism school,
Youm wrote that “it will be another
defining moment in my academic
career because it will challenge
myself to rethink and expand my
legal scholarship beyond U.S.
communication law.”
Youm said he hopes interactions
with top media law scholars from
around the world while studying
at Oxford will challenge his
academic ideas, help round out
his education and improve his
performance as a professor.
“Pedagogically, I might learn
from how English professors,
especially Oxford professors, are in
teracting with students,” Youm said.
“Getting to know professors is one
of the most effective ways of getting
something out of college.”
Youm will live alone in England
while his wife continues working in
Eugene. He said he wants to be com
pletely absorbed in his studies while
at Oxford and needs to leave behind
anything not related to academics,
thus he will live “like a monk.”
Though Youm expects his year at
Oxford to be a challenging one, he
is confident it will be one that will
immensely benefit his work at the
University and is hopeful it will be
a year to remember.
“When someone asks me about
my tenure at Oxford, I’d like to say
without hesitation, ‘It was a heck of
a good time,”’ Youm said.
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Walsh, who took office May 25,
said he has spent the last week set
tling in.
“Three to four hours of meetings
after finishing class and work is
becoming the norm, so it makes
it exciting not only for the summer
preparation but for all of next year,”
he said. “It’s a grueling pace so
far, but that just means that
there’s going to be a lot of work that
gets done.”
Commenting on recent student
concerns about alleged racist
practices in the College of Educa
tion, Walsh said he has publicly
pledged to multicultural student
unions to do “everything in our
power” to help make the campus a
better place for all students.
He said he will be testifying today
before the Oregon University
System Board of Directors about
rising student fees, which he
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