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| Dr. Benjamin Muego |
Upon enrolling, our Department Head told us that we are going to have a new professor and that he's from the United States of America. I don't exactly know what to feel nor how to react, maybe I'm a bit excited because then I can practice and enhance my English and kinda nervous because of course we don't know what to expect from a Western-based Filipino professor. For us he was too early for the start of class (Filipino habit of starting late), and so there were just three of us who attended the first meeting of his class. Whoa! He's really cool! And by cool I really mean cool, not that 'coz he wants us to drop the "Sir", "Mr.", "Dr." all those titles and just to be simply called "Ben" but as expected being Filipinos we would really have a hard time doing so, we called him "Sir". Second meeting was more on observation and in Filipino kapaan pa; until our year level got know him better and became close with him. We dine out almost every after class, talking about random stuffs (he just knows how to really keep it going), karaoke, and most of all he understand us not only as students but as individuals. Sir Ben's great sense of humor keeps us awake and drawn to attention (especially that our class falls on the siesta hour). We are very blessed and grateful to be his student; I've never imagined that I would have such a great professor like him in my school.
His credentials are way too OVERWHELMING in spite of that he's simpler than those who still have a long way to go. He's a bigwig for us, we never got intimidated with him. You know why? It's because he knows how to keep his feet flat on the ground, we can open up anything. He sees and treats the complicated life simple. I just don't get the fact that a certain institution would want him to pass his Medical Records in the clinic which is associated with them and drops his offer to show them the records that he used for two well-known universities. And this time, they are asking for his TOR (Transcript of Record), isn't it more than enough that he has showed them his diploma from different State Colleges in the United States and here in The Philippines? What more could you ask for? I myself would let them do so and make him comply with their "protocol", if and only if they could find him a replacement. A replacement with same or even greater credentials than him. Think twice, or maybe a hundred times. If you're really after a good education to your students then you should really think about all these papers that are obviously unnecessary that would put these privileged students' life and learning on the line. (to be updated)
Who is Sir Ben Muego?
Dr. Benjamin N. Muego is currently Professorial Lecturer 5 of Political Science in the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy of the University of the Philippines-Diliman and Professorial Lecturer 5 of Political Science in the College of Liberal Arts of De La Salle University-Manila. Before that, Benjamin N Muego was Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), a major public university in the American Midwest from 1980 through 2010 (he retired from BGSU on 10 May 2010). After retiring from Bowling Green State University, Benjamin N Muego taught at Cleveland State University (2010-12) and at the Ateneo de Manila University-Loyola Schools (2012-14). While an undergraduate at the University of the Philippines-Diliman, Benjamin N Muego served as Chair of the UP Student Council (1964-65), Editor-in-Chief of the Philippinensian, Editorial Writer for the Philippine Collegian, Captain of the UP Debating Team that won the National Union of Students National Debate Championship (1963), Captain of the Philippine National Debating Team to Australia that won the Chester Wilmot Cup (1964) and Captain of the UP Debating Team which won all but two of its debates in the United States in 1965 (along with the late Enrique Voltaire R Garcia II). Through a special “Teaching Fellow” appointment conferred by the late UP President Carlos P Romulo, Benjamin N Muego organized and ran the UP Debate Workshop as an undergraduate and taught Speech I (Fundamentals of Speech), Speech 133 (Argumentation and Debate) and Philippine Institutions 100 (Life and Works of Jose P Rizal) from June 1967 through March 1968, under the joint auspices of the Department of Speech and Drama and the Department of Philippine Studies of the College of Arts and Sciences. Benjamin N Muego departed for the United States in the Fall of 1969 to pursue advanced graduate studies and obtained his MA in Political Science from Kansas State University in 1971 and his PhD in Political Science from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1976 (he also attended the University of Toledo College of Law for the Juris Doctor degree from 1983-89). Benjamin N Muego returned to the Philippines in 1986-87 after an absence of seventeen years, as a Visiting Fulbright Professor of Political Science at UP College-Cebu of the University of the Philippines.
Author of Spectator Society: The Philippines Under Martial Rule (Ohio University Press: 1988), The Philippines: A Self-Study Guide (US National Foreign Affairs Training Center, 2011) and American Government: A Basic Text for Non-Majors (Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 2009) and nearly two dozen book chapters and journal articles on political and national security issues in the Southeast Asia region, Benjamin N Muego was a post-doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore (1977-78) and an International Relations Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu (1990-91). Benjamin N Muego also served as Adjunct Professor of Southeast Asia Studies at the US State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, the training facility where career Foreign Service Officers (FSOs) undergo training before being posted to their overseas assignments (1982-10) and as Adjunct Professor of Security Assistance Management in the US Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio (1999 to the present). Benjamin N Muego was elected twice as Chair of Bowling Green State University’s Faculty Senate (1993-94; 2002-03), one of only four BGSU faculty members who have been so honored in the 68-year history of the organization; interim president of the BGSU/FA-AAUP (the faculty union), in AY 2008-09 and was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Service Award by Bowling Green State University in 2003. Benjamin N Muego is a life-member and current President of the Fulbright Association of Northeast Ohio, East-West Center Association, American Political Science Association and the Association for Asian Studies. Professor Muego is also a member of Pi Sigma Alpha (National Political Science Honor Society), Omicron Delta Kappa (National Leadership Honor Society) and the Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity (Taft Senate), all in the United States. In the Philippines, Benjamin N Muego is a proud member of the Alpha Phi Beta Fraternity of the UP College of Law and a Charter Member of the Movement for the Advancement of Nationalism (MAN).
Who is Sir Ben Muego?
Dr. Benjamin N. Muego is currently Professorial Lecturer 5 of Political Science in the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy of the University of the Philippines-Diliman and Professorial Lecturer 5 of Political Science in the College of Liberal Arts of De La Salle University-Manila. Before that, Benjamin N Muego was Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), a major public university in the American Midwest from 1980 through 2010 (he retired from BGSU on 10 May 2010). After retiring from Bowling Green State University, Benjamin N Muego taught at Cleveland State University (2010-12) and at the Ateneo de Manila University-Loyola Schools (2012-14). While an undergraduate at the University of the Philippines-Diliman, Benjamin N Muego served as Chair of the UP Student Council (1964-65), Editor-in-Chief of the Philippinensian, Editorial Writer for the Philippine Collegian, Captain of the UP Debating Team that won the National Union of Students National Debate Championship (1963), Captain of the Philippine National Debating Team to Australia that won the Chester Wilmot Cup (1964) and Captain of the UP Debating Team which won all but two of its debates in the United States in 1965 (along with the late Enrique Voltaire R Garcia II). Through a special “Teaching Fellow” appointment conferred by the late UP President Carlos P Romulo, Benjamin N Muego organized and ran the UP Debate Workshop as an undergraduate and taught Speech I (Fundamentals of Speech), Speech 133 (Argumentation and Debate) and Philippine Institutions 100 (Life and Works of Jose P Rizal) from June 1967 through March 1968, under the joint auspices of the Department of Speech and Drama and the Department of Philippine Studies of the College of Arts and Sciences. Benjamin N Muego departed for the United States in the Fall of 1969 to pursue advanced graduate studies and obtained his MA in Political Science from Kansas State University in 1971 and his PhD in Political Science from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1976 (he also attended the University of Toledo College of Law for the Juris Doctor degree from 1983-89). Benjamin N Muego returned to the Philippines in 1986-87 after an absence of seventeen years, as a Visiting Fulbright Professor of Political Science at UP College-Cebu of the University of the Philippines.
Author of Spectator Society: The Philippines Under Martial Rule (Ohio University Press: 1988), The Philippines: A Self-Study Guide (US National Foreign Affairs Training Center, 2011) and American Government: A Basic Text for Non-Majors (Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 2009) and nearly two dozen book chapters and journal articles on political and national security issues in the Southeast Asia region, Benjamin N Muego was a post-doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore (1977-78) and an International Relations Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu (1990-91). Benjamin N Muego also served as Adjunct Professor of Southeast Asia Studies at the US State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, the training facility where career Foreign Service Officers (FSOs) undergo training before being posted to their overseas assignments (1982-10) and as Adjunct Professor of Security Assistance Management in the US Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio (1999 to the present). Benjamin N Muego was elected twice as Chair of Bowling Green State University’s Faculty Senate (1993-94; 2002-03), one of only four BGSU faculty members who have been so honored in the 68-year history of the organization; interim president of the BGSU/FA-AAUP (the faculty union), in AY 2008-09 and was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Service Award by Bowling Green State University in 2003. Benjamin N Muego is a life-member and current President of the Fulbright Association of Northeast Ohio, East-West Center Association, American Political Science Association and the Association for Asian Studies. Professor Muego is also a member of Pi Sigma Alpha (National Political Science Honor Society), Omicron Delta Kappa (National Leadership Honor Society) and the Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity (Taft Senate), all in the United States. In the Philippines, Benjamin N Muego is a proud member of the Alpha Phi Beta Fraternity of the UP College of Law and a Charter Member of the Movement for the Advancement of Nationalism (MAN).
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