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The closing of Rutgers University due to the COVID-19 pandemic has meant SC&I staff have needed to adapt quickly to working 100% remotely, during a time when students and faculty have needed more support than ever before. SC&I staff continue to do exemplary work in all areas and to provide assistance in new, expanded, and creative ways.
We know for many of you the past month or so has been especially challenging as we all are dealing with new ways of learning, keeping physical distance, and caring for loved ones affected by this crisis. We want you to know that your department faculty care and we have collectively agreed to take every effort we reasonably can to work with students in need and to make adjustments where possible as we all manage amid these unfamiliar times.
In her latest book, Klein, the Rutgers inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies, “explains how the bold ideas and action within the Green New Deal could avert climate catastrophe and be a blueprint for a just and thriving society.”
Rutgers Center for Organizational Leadership was actively involved in the design, coordination, and facilitation of the Botswana-Rutgers Leadership Summit, which was hosted at Rutgers in early May 2019.
The School of Communication and Information (SC&I) at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, will hold its graduation ceremony for all students receiving a degree from SC&I on Thursday, May 16, 2019 from 3 – 5 p.m. at the Rutgers Athletic Center (RAC) on the Rutgers Livingston campus.
Through the Rutgers Center for Organizational Leadership, SC&I’s Distinguished Professor Brent Ruben and alumni Ralph Gigliotti ’17, Christine Goldthwaite ‘10, ’18, and Kate Immordino, are assisting leaders from Botswana in their mission to transform their country’s public service model and enhance their leadership capabilities.
Interested in learning speed pitching? At this event, Rutgers/SC&I students can gain insight into the interaction between public relations practitioners and journalists. The event is co-hosted by the Rutgers Public Relations Student Society of America (Todd Hunt Chapter), based at SC&I.
SC&I Library and Information Science faculty, students and alumni will be presenting at the 2018 Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Conference in Vancouver, Canada from November 10-14. This year’s theme is “Building and Sustaining an Ethical Future with Emerging Technology.”
The Douglas N. Woodson Sr. Endowed Scholarship empowers Master of Information students. With the first scholarship awards to be made in 2019, Brown-Woodson, who completed her doctorate at Rutgers, is happy to pay it forward. “With financial help, maybe students won’t have to work full time, and they can finish their degrees in a shorter amount of time,” she says. “That’s my intent—to give back and empower others.”
Deborah Blackwell is a member of the Ocean County New Jersey's Library Management Team and currently serves as the library's Training Officer. Blackwell believes in the power of the public library to serve as a vital resource in being an "equalizer for all" community members. Please join us for this special event.