nahein, it is easy to remove police officers or ranks, which is common happening in US, Serbia, Russia, Europe.
The School of Communications recently welcomed
two international students into its graduate journalism program. Anna Poludenko of Ukraine and Kazim Alam of Pakistan, two recipients of the Fulbright Foreign Student Program, will complete master of science in journalism degrees by next July before returning home to work as professional journalists.
"Anna and Kazim represent our global approach to the practice of journalism," said Richard Hanley, assistant professor and director of the graduate journalism program.
"We have an international reputation for excellence, and as such are attracting the best and brightest journalism students from outside the U.S. We're delighted to have students of this caliber in our program, and we are confident we will continue to do so in the future as our reputation grows and deepens around the world."
Before applying for the Fulbright Program, Poludenko finished the graduate program at the Mohyla School of Journalism in Kiev, Ukraine, where she focused on international journalism and convergent journalism-also known as multimedia. "I wanted to come study here because I would say that all of the media trends are made here in the [United] States," Polundeko said. "Most of the trends for multimedia journalism everywhere are made here."
After completing her degree at Quinnipiac, she hopes to return to Ukraine as a correspondent "covering national events for an international audience." Polundenko previously worked as a reporter for the Kiev Post and as an intern for Deutsche Welle, an international TV and radio network based out of Germany.
Alam originally pursued a business management degree in Pakistan to work in the textiles industry, only to realize that his true calling was journalism. He ended up working as a copy editor at The News International, an English language newspaper.
He is from the city of Karachi, the financial hub of Pakistan where an embedded reporter from The Wall Street Journal, Daniel Pearl, was kidnapped and killed by a group of terrorists in 2002. Alam, too, envisions working as a reporter covering the issues related to the rise of religious extremism and the Taliban in his hometown. "Of course, that will be dangerous, but that's the life of a journalist," Alam said. "That's where the action is. That's where the passion is. That's where the interest is."
Alam interwove Pearl's story within the framework of his personal statement in order to apply to the Fulbright Program.
"I wrote that I always look up to him as an example," Alam said, "because the courage with which he moved to Pakistan to investigate the terror network in a Third World country in a dangerous place like Karachi and the way he faced all of that misery... he was exemplary."
Pakistani Student: Americans Can Win Hearts And Minds
June 1 2011
I arrived in the United States on Aug. 22, 2010, with a small suitcase and barely $200 in my pocket. My host family, which I found through Quinnipiac University's website, was at Bradley International Airport to receive its new tenant and neighbor from Pakistan — a country whose name has become a synonym for terrorism, Islamist fundamentalism and suicide bombings.
So why stay here? :p
