Under Quinnipiac auspices, Janensch visited China to give lectures on the American news media at the Beijing Broadcasting Institute in 1997, 1998, and 2000. He also hosted visiting professors from China in an exchange between this institute and Quinnipiac. He moderated and served on panels on ethics, political polls, and other matters at annual conferences of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). He taught a course on the autobiographical writings of Frank McCourt and Malachy McCourt to Quinnipiac students studying in County Kerry, Ireland.
