Dr. John Schulz was dean of the College of Communication from July 2003 to late September 2006. He chaired the Department of Mass Communication, Advertising and Public Relations from June 1997 through December 1999. Before joining Boston University in November 1995 as Professor of International Communication, he spent three years editing the award-winning magazine Arms Control Today in Washington D.C. He retired in 1991 from Voice of America after 21 years as a foreign correspondent and senior news executive.

His areas of interest and expertise include international reporting, strategic studies and arms control, China, Afghanistan, East and South Asian regional affairs, transnational communication, and terrorism and insurgency.

Foreign assignments for VOA included Hong Kong, Tokyo, Islamabad and, on shorter assignments, Bangkok, New Delhi, London and Geneva. Much of his Asian coverage involved the wars in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, the Moro uprising in the Philippines, and later, the Soviet war in Afghanistan (1987-89, from Islamabad). Between foreign assignments he did short stints for VOA covering Congress, the White House and the Pentagon.

From 1989-91, he was a Professor of National Security Studies at the National War College in Washington, where he had been a student in 1985-86. His two graduate degrees from Oxford University in England (1979 and 1981) are in international relations. At the University of Montana (1958-62) he majored in journalism, was a senior AFROTC cadet officer, a varsity quarterback and president or vice-president of eight student organizations.

In 1967-8 he flew 275 missions as an F-100 fighter pilot in Vietnam, where he was awarded 23 combat decorations, including the Silver Star, three DFCs, and two Vietnamese Gallantry Crosses.

Since January 2002, he has been editor-in-chief of the Global Beat Syndicate, which provides up to three or four op-ed pieces per week to nearly 400 U.S. and Canadian newspapers and another 150 abroad.