Jorge Reina Schement, Ph.D., is the current dean

Dean (education)

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 of the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies (Rutgers University)

School of Communication, Information and Library Studies (Rutgers University)

The School of Communication and Information is one of the 19 schools at the New Brunswick Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The school was created in 1982 as a result of a merger between the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and the School of Communication...

 (SCILS). Schement is a Professor

Professor

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 II of Communication

Communication

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, Professor II of Latino-Hispanic Caribbean Studies, and Professor II of Public Policy

Public policy

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 at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Schement’s research and scholarship address issues in the areas of information policy, global telecommunications, the social aspects of the Information Age

Information Age

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, Spanish-language media, and information-consumer behavior. More specifically, he has focused on the social and policy consequences of the production and consumption of information, with a special interest in policy as it relates to ethnic minorities.

Schement serves as the editor-in-chief of the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Communication and Information, as well as an editorial board member of: IT & Society, Journal of Media and Religion, Information and Behavior, and Telematics and Informatics.

Schement currently sits on the board of the Center for Media Studies at SCILS, as well as the Advertising Council and the United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, among others.

Prior to his appointment at SCILS, Schement was a distinguished professor at Penn State University and a co-director of the Institute for Information Policy at that school. He has been a faculty fellow at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information at Columbia University

Columbia University

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 since 1987.

Jorge earned his Ph.D. in Communications from the Institute for Communications Research at Stanford University

Stanford University

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 in 1976, an M.S. in Marketing from the School of Commerce at the University of Illinois, Urbana in 1972, and a BBA in Management at the Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University

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 in 1970. During his time at Southern Methodist University, he was Vice President of Sigma Iota Epsilon

Sigma Iota Epsilon

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External links

• Dean’s Welcome at School of Communication, Information and Library Studies (Rutgers University)
  School of Communication, Information and Library Studies (Rutgers University)
  The School of Communication and Information is one of the 19 schools at the New Brunswick Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The school was created in 1982 as a result of a merger between the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and the School of Communication...
  
  
• Information Bill of Rights at Internet on The Air (IOTA)
• Encyclopedia of Communication and Information