The School of Communication and Information (SC&I) 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 Studies, both of which had roots in programs established in the 1920s. The school offers 3 undergraduate majors in Communication, Journalism and Media Studies, and Information Technology and Informatics, as well as a Master of Communication and Information Studies, a Master of Library and Information Science, and an interdisciplinary PhD program in Communication, Information and Library Studies.

SC&I also has students pursuing nondegree certificates through its Professional Development Studies program. There are 55 full-time faculty at the school.
In order to be apart of the Rutgers School of Communication, you must apply. This years application deadline is February of 2011.

The specialization in school library media was ranked No. 1 in the nation by US News and World Report. Overall, SC&I's Department of Library and Information Science is No. 6 in the nation.

History

Although SC&I was established in 1982, the roots of the academic programs housed at the school date back to the 1920s.

1926 Undergraduate program in Journalism established at Rutgers College

1927 Undergraduate program in librarianship established at the New Jersey College for Women, later Douglass College. This became defunct two decades later.

1953 Graduate School of Library Service (GSLS) opens its doors to its first class of master’s students

1971 Undergraduate major in Communication established

1978 Name of the GSLS changes to Graduate School of Library and Information Studies

1982 School of Communication, Information and Library Studies is established. At the time of its inception, the school offered two undergraduate majors (Communication, Journalism and Mass Media), a master's degree in Library Service, and established an interdisciplinary doctoral program

1983 Names of the departments are denoted as Department of Communication, Department of Journalism and Mass Media, and Department of Library and Information Studies

1987 Master of Communication and Information Studies established

2001 Undergraduate major in Information Technology and Informatics begins accepting students

2005 Online Master of Library and Information Science program admits its first students

2009 Name changed from School of Communication, Information and Library Studies to School of Communication and Information.

Communication

Students and faculty in the Department of Communication

Communication

Communication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast...

 study the nature and effects of communication on individuals, social groups, and society, including the ways in which communication is practiced in everyday life and the choices about communication that affect individuals and their situation. This program was founded as an undergraduate program in 1971.

Organizational communication

Organizational communication

Organizational communication is a subfield of the larger discipline of communication studies. Organizational communication, as a field, is the consideration, analysis, and criticism of the role of communication in organizational contexts....

, mediated communication, language

Language

Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...

 and social interaction, and interpersonal communication

Interpersonal communication

Interpersonal communication is usually defined by communication scholars in numerous ways, usually describing participants who are dependent upon one another. It...

 are primary areas of faculty research with change, collaboration, culture, health, gender, globalization, identity, leadership, persuasion, policy, and relationship development prominent problem-centered research foci across areas.

Journalism and Media Studies

The Department of Journalism and Media Studies is concerned with the relationships among media texts, institutions, and audiences, especially in the way that media and society affect each other politically, culturally, and socially. This includes study of both the “traditional” mass media and newer electronic technologies and telecommunications. The Journalism and Media Studies program was founded in 1926.

Research examines media content and effects; audience reception and interpretive processes; the emergence of audiences understood in terms of race, age, gender, class, and politics; the sociology and production of culture; communication law, regulation, and policy; and the media’s roles in political and international communication and in educational systems.

Library and Information Science

The Department of Library and Information Science focuses on the role of information in personal, social, institutional, national, and international contexts. Research of information-seeking activity, information retrieval systems, and information structures are core interests. These research interests involve considerations of design, management, and evaluation of information systems and services along with the development and assessment of tools responsive to the information needs of users. Digital libraries, school libraries and youth services, knowledge management, and information personalization are areas of notable emphasis within the department. The program was founded in 1927.

Alexandria Project Lab - APLab

The APLab hosts research on the development and user-centered evaluation of library and information systems, with particular attention to the Internet and Networked Information Environments. Projects are supported by government, foundation and corporate sponsors.

Center for Media Studies

The Center for Media Studies is concerned with the impact of media on contemporary society and finding ways for the media to better serve the public interest.

Center for Mobile Communication Studies

The Center for Mobile Communication Studies is arguably the world’s first academic unit to focus solely on social aspects of mobile communication. Established in June 2004, the Center is an international focal point for research, teaching and service on the social, psychological and organizational consequences of the mobile communication revolution.

Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL)

The Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL) is dedicated to research, scholarship, education and consultancy for school library professionals. It focuses on how learning in an information age school is enabled and demonstrated by school library programs, and how inquiry-based learning and teaching processes can contribute to educational success and workplace readiness for learners. CISSL’s Director is Professor Carol Gordon and Professor Ross Todd is Director of Research.

University Center for Organizational Development and Leadership (ODL)

The Center for Organizational Development and Leadership serves as a resource to the university community in support of efforts to create a more service-oriented culture. Emphasis is placed on relationship building and "teaching in all we do" - inside and outside of the classroom. Education and instruction, consultation and facilitation, and research and development in organizational leadership are core center activities.

Center for Communication and Health Issues

CHI is a consortium of educators, counselors and students conducting research on communication and health issues affecting college students. Its associates design, implement and evaluate campus and community-based education, intervention and prevention programs. It was founded in 1997 by Communication Professors Linda C. Lederman and Lea P. Stewart, health educators Richard Powell and Fern Goodhart, and substance abuse counselor Lisa Laitman, as an ongoing collaboration.

Journalism Resources Institute

The Journalism Resources Institute is active in a broad range of mass media and communication issues in journalism and the dissemination of news information to all segments of society. It works with professionals from print and electronic news media, and with students and faculty with special interest in mass communication studies and research. JRI also assists government, corporate, nonprofit and private agencies that depend on the mass media for news and information distribution.

Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Policy and Security (ISIPS)

The Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Policy and Security at SC&I promotes collaboration among scholars in multiple disciplines, including behavioral sciences, information processing and retrieval, natural and computer languages, and organizational research. ISIPS researchers analyze alternatives and design systems that focus on the human user of systems, on the user's community and on the concern with privacy and individual rights in the context of security needs.

Invitational Masters Student Institute

The Invitational Masters Student Institute is designed for students in (or recent graduates of) Masters of Communication / Media Studies programs who are seriously considering going on for their Ph.D. in Communication or Media Studies.

Knowledge Institute

The Knowledge Institute is dedicated to primary and applied research to advance the understanding of knowledge management in the areas of knowledge generation, knowledge sharing, knowledge use, and the management of knowledge objects. The Knowledge Institute takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of knowledge creation and sharing.

Rutgers LAIR

The Rutgers LAIR is a laboratory for advanced information research which is home to a number of research projects directed by members of the Library and Information Science faculty at Rutgers. The projects range over many areas, but are all broadly related to the issues of digitally storing, organizing and retrieving information, in order to serve diverse communities of users. The LAIR is also home to the Alexandria Project Laboratory (APLab). Another resident activity is the Rutgers Distributed Laboratory for Digital Libraries (RDLDL), the predecessor to the LAIR. LAIR is active in sponsoring and organizing workshops on a variety of activities.

Student organizations

• Association for Women in Communication
• IABC
• Lamda Pi Eta
• Public Relations Student Society of America
  Public Relations Student Society of America
  The Public Relations Student Society of America , based in New York City, is a pre-professional public relations organization. Founded in 1967 after Professor Walter Seifer of Ohio State University suggested that its parent Society, the Public Relations Society of America , expand and establish the...
  
  
• Information Technology and Informatics Council
• LISSA - Library and Information Science Student Association (ALA
  American Library Association
  The American Library Association is a non-profit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 62,000 members....
  
   Student Chapter)
• Kappa Tau Alpha
  Kappa Tau Alpha
  Kappa Tau Alpha is an American college honor society which recognizes academic excellence and promotes scholarship in journalism and mass communication...
  
  
• Rutgers University Association of Black Journalists
• The Society of Professional Journalists
• MCIS Graduate Student Association
• International Association of Business Communicators
  International Association of Business Communicators
  The International Association of Business Communicators is a leading association for business communication professionals. IABC has approximately 16,000 members in more than 100 chapters in over 80 countries....
  
   - Rutgers Student Chapter
• RU ASIS&T (American Society for Information Science & Technology
  American Society for Information Science and Technology
  The American Society for Information Science and Technology, sometimes abbreviated ASIS&T or ASIST, is a non-profit membership organization for information professionals...
  
   Student Chapter)
• Special Libraries Association
  Special Libraries Association
  Special Libraries Association is an international professional association for library and information professionals working in business, government, law, finance, non-profit, and academic organizations and institutions....
  
   - Rutgers University Student Group
• SOURCE - Student Organization for Unique and Rare Collections Everywhere
• RASL - Rutgers Association of School Librarians (AASL Student Chapter
  American Association of School Librarians
  The American Association of School Librarians has been a division of the American Library Association since 1951. Prior to that, school librarians were served by the School Library Section of ALA founded in 1914 which itself emerged from the Roundtable of Normal and High School Librarians which...
  
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• SC&I Doctoral Student Association

Communication

• Mark Aakhus (Social Interaction, Organizational & Mediated Communication)
• Jeffrey Boase (Mediated Communication, Personal Networks)
• Galina Bolden (Language & Social Interaction)
• Marya L. Doerfel (Organizational Communication, Social Networks)
• Gustav Friedrich (Interpersonal/Small Group Communication)
• Jennifer Gibbs (Organizational Communication, Mediated Communication)
• Kathryn Greene (Health Communication)
• James Katz (Communication Technology & News Media)
• Hui-Min Kuo (Organizational Culture, Intercultural Communication, Leadership)
• Laurie Lewis (Organizational Communication)
• Jenny Mandelbaum (Social Interaction, Conversational Analysis, Relationships,Identity, Interpersonal Communication)
• Hartmut Mokros (Social Interaction, Identity, Microanalysis, Childhood Mental Health)
• Jeffrey Robinson (Social Interaction, Health Communication)
• Brent Ruben (Organizational Communication)
• Jorge Reina Schement
  Jorge Reina Schement
  Jorge Reina Schement, Ph.D., is the current dean of the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies . Schement is a Professor II of Communication, Professor II of Latino-Hispanic Caribbean Studies, and Professor II of Public Policy at Rutgers, The State University of New...
  
   (Communication, Information Science, Latino-Hispanic Caribbean Studies, Public Policy)
• Michelle Scollo (Ethnography of Communication, Cultural & Intercultural Communication)
• Craig Scott(Organizational Communication, Communication Technologies, Anonymous Communication)
• Lea P. Stewart (Health Communication, Communication and Gender, Communication Ethics)
• Jennifer Theiss (Interpersonal Communication, Relationship Development)
• Itzhak Yanovitzky(Health Communication)

Journalism and Media Studies

• Jack Bratich (Critical Cultural Studies, Social Political Theory, Popular Culture)
• David Greenberg (U.S Political and Media History, Media and Politics)
• Susan Keith
• Montague Kern
• Robert Kubey (Psychology and Politics of Media, Media Literacy, Human Creativity)
• Deepa Kumar
  Deepa Kumar
  Deepa Kumar is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at the Rutgers University . She is the author of the book Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization, and the UPS Strike....
  
   (Class, Gender, Race and Media, Middle East, War and Media, Social Movements)
• Regina Marchi (Race, Class, Gender and Media, Social Movements & Media, Community-based Media, Latino Media and Pop Culture)
• Steven Miller (Undergraduate Studies, Internships)
• Ronald Miskoff (The Practice of Journalism)
• John V. Pavlik
  John V. Pavlik
  John Vernon Pavlik is an American academic and author who publishes on new media, journalism and health communication.-Biography:He is a professor and chair of the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies at Rutgers University...
  
   (New Media, Journalism and Society)
• Barbara S. Reed (U.S. Social History, Ethnic Press, Contemporary and Historical Studies, Print and Online Magazines)
• William Solomon

Library and Information Science

• Nicholas Belkin (Information Science)
• Kay Cassell (Reference and Information Science)
• Marija Dalbello (Social History of Knowledge, Documents, Collections)
• Carol Gordon (Information Science)
• Jacek Gwizdka (Information Science, Human-Computer Interaction)
• Lydia Eato Harris
• Waller A. Hastings (Children's Literature)
• Paul Kantor (Information and Computer Science and Operations Research)
• Michael Lesk (Information Science)
• Ya-Ling Lu (Information Science)
• Claire R. Mclnerney (Information Science, Information and Communication Technology, Social Informatics)
• Stewart Mohr (Knowledge Management, Information Science)
• Smaranda Muresan (Natural Language Processing, Digital Libraries)
• Mor Naaman (Social Media, Mobile, Multimedia, Location-Based Information)
• Daniel O. O'Connor (Information Science)
• Lilia Pavlovsky (Information Science, Social Computing, Distance Learning)
• Marie L. Radford (Interpersonal/Small Group Communication)
• Tefko Saracevic (Information Science)
• Jorge Reina Schement
  Jorge Reina Schement
  Jorge Reina Schement, Ph.D., is the current dean of the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies . Schement is a Professor II of Communication, Professor II of Latino-Hispanic Caribbean Studies, and Professor II of Public Policy at Rutgers, The State University of New...
  
  (Communication, Information Science, Latino-Hispanic Caribbean Studies, Public Policy)
• Anselm Spoerri (Information Science)
• Ross J Todd (Information Science)
• Jana Varlejs (Information Science)
• Nina Wacholder (Natural Language Processing, Information Access, Organizing Information, Information Systems)
• Xiangmin Zhang (Information Science)

External links

• SC&I homepage
• http://www.comminfo.rutgers.edu/research/centers-and-institutes.html