| Barbara Schmitz Benish has been an adjunct professor at UW Oshkosh since 1994, teaching a variety of news/editorial and advertising classes. She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism at UW Oshkosh in December 1982, with an emphasis in both the news/editorial and advertising/public relations sequences. In 1991, she earned her master’s degree in business administration, also from UW Oshkosh, with an emphasis in marketing.
She has worked as a newspaper reporter and editor at weekly and daily newspapers, and has interviewed former Presidents George Bush and Ronald Reagan. Today, as a free-lance writer, she mainly covers aviation, conservation enforcement and education. She has interviewed actor Harrison Ford, Gen. Chuck Yeager, who was the first to break the sound barrier, and Astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper, who took part in the Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to the International Space Station in September 2006.
Benish has twice been named an Appreciated Professor by UW Oshkosh students.
Office: Clow 106L -- Phone: 424-7145 -- E-mail: benish@uwosh.edu
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