Class Notes


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• Mr. Sait Serkan Gürbüz, an alumnus of the Department of International Relations (Class of 2003), has been awarded a Fulbright grant by the Commission for Educational Exchange Between the United States and Turkey, to pursue graduate study in Journalism in the United States. Serkan will begin his studies in Fall 2007 at the School of Journalism of the University of Missouri - Columbia. Although Serkan already had a grant covering all the expenses, the University of Missouri Columbia awarded him a full tuition waiver in its offer. The world's first school of journalism was started in 1908 at the University of Missouri Columbia, widely known as Mizzou; the centennial of the J-School will be celebrated in September 2008. U.S. News & World Report ranked the J-School's graduate program in print journalism the best in America. The Missouri Method provides practical hands-on training in real-world media and strategic communication agencies. Mizzou's "KOMU is the only university-owned commercial television station in the United States that uses its newsroom as a working lab for students. KOMU is affiliated with both NBC and CNN. Published six mornings a week and distributed throughout Columbia and the surrounding region, the Columbia Missourian is the working newspaper lab for students in news-editorial, design, information graphics and photojournalism. The Missourian was founded on Sept. 14, 1908, the same day classes began at the School of Journalism." Mizzou also owns a radio station, several magazines, websites and an advertising agency. The school has quite a large faculty of 99 academics.