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 directs the university's annual "Global Agenda" speaker series on international issues.

At Delaware, Begleiter teaches undergraduate courses in "Media and Politics," "Broadcast News," "Crisis News," "History of TV News Documentary," "Broadcast News Documentary," "Global Media & International Politics," and special courses such as a study abroad program in Antarctica in photojournalism and geopolitics (2003, 2005) and "Road to the Presidency" during election years. In 2006, his "Global Agenda" class met weekly by videoconference with students in Beirut, Lebanon to discuss cross-cultural and media issues. In 2002 he took UD students to Cuba for the 40th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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. In November 2000, editors of the Brown Alumni Magazine named him among the 100 alumni who have had "greatest impact... on the twentieth century."

Begleiter also has served as a program host on the Foreign Policy Association television series "Great Decisions" broadcast on many PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) stations from 2001-2004, and on the History Channel's international cable TV service in 2000. He is a judge of the Computerworld Awards which honor public service uses of computer technology.

He has served as a Commissioner of the "RIAS Berlin Commission," which encourages German-American broadcast journalism and exchanges, and as a judge for its annual broadcasting awards. (RIAS is the acronym for a cold war era news service known as "Radio In the American Sector" of then divided Berlin.)

At the invitation of the U.S. Department of State, Begleiter has taught journalists in Amman, Jordan about the concepts of "credibility and objectivity" in independent journalism. He has also addressed journalists in many other countries and has helped train U.S. career diplomats in Washington studying public affairs issues at the State Department's Foreign Service Institute.

Begleiter has also taught on media and foreign policy in the Government Department at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and on the media's influence in international affairs in as a Ferris Professor of Journalism in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University.

In October, 2000, he served as a faculty member and resource specialist at the Salzburg Seminar session on "Mass Media in the Age of Globalization."

The New York Museum of Radio and Television has used Begleiter in its "satellite seminar" series of educational programs broadcast to colleges and universities throughout the United States.

He regularly speaks to civic and community organizations, international affairs groups, domestic and abroad, including World Affairs Councils, the National Defense University, the Freedom Forum, Britain's Royal College of Defense Studies, U.S. Military Academy at West Point, U.S. Air War College, U.S. Naval War College, U.S. Army War College, the James A. Baker Institute and embassy policy groups.