A significant minority of Americans lack confidence in the outcome of the 2020 presidential election with more than one-third – primarily Republicans and Trump voters – not believing that the election results were fair, according to a nationwide survey by researchers from Rutgers University–New Brunswick, Northeastern, Harvard and Northwestern universities.
A new study finds Americans are following social distancing guidelines less than they did in April.
In his keynote, delivered to over 100 Major League Baseball executives and 30 teams, SC&I faculty member Mark Beal told the audience: reaching Generation Z means “prioritizing purpose over profit and engagement over marketing.”
In new research, Dafna Lemish and her co-author explore the ways parents, locked down at home managing their children and careers during the pandemic, post and share humor on social media as a way to relieve stress and mitigate their feelings of anxiety, and how their posts reveal much about 21st century society.
SC&I Faculty & Student Presentations at #NCA2020.
The award recognizes graduate faculty who have made significant contributions to graduate education at Rutgers University.
The Master of Communication and Media (MCM) program, based at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information (SC&I) in New Brunswick, New Jersey, reached new milestones in 2020, despite the challenging conditions facing academia. Through active recruitment, positive word of mouth, and a concentrated effort by the program and the marketing and communications and the student services teams, enrollment figures are at an 15-year high: MCM has 217 active students enrolled for the fall 2020 semester.
In “Organizing Inclusion,” a new book edited by Professor Marya Doerfel and former SC&I faculty member Jennifer Gibbs, the authors “challenge all of us to rethink our own role in perpetuating racist systems and how we can change that with both individual-level and structural changes.”
“The degree is one thing, but it’s what you take away from the program that truly matters,” says Kayla Jennings-Rivera, MCM ’20. Read more about how the MCM program shaped her path.
SC&I Communication (COM) and Journalism and Media Studies (JMS) majors can apply for the MCM program in their junior or senior year as part of the Dual Degree BA/MCM program option.
