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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 its report, the Dean Evaluation Committee wrote, “Dean Potter is a hard-working, ethical dean who has made significant, positive contributions to the culture, intellectual vision, and effective operation of SC&I during his first five years.”
The Tow Center for Digital Journalism, an institute within Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, has selected Christoph Mergerson, a Ph.D. candidate, and Qun Wang, a Ph.D. alumna, as 2020 Knight News Innovation Fellows.
Nikolaos Linardopoulos, associate teaching professor at SC&I, explains how he worked with Rutgers to transform the public speaking course so it could be offered remotely.
Welcome back! To further promote community wellness, courses within the School of Communication and Information will be offered remotely for the Fall 2020 semester. As a result, the SC&I Office of Student Services will continue to operate remotely through the Fall 2020 semester as well. Be assured that we remain committed to providing outstanding academic, personal, and career support to all our students.
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.”
We released the summer 2020 edition of the SC&I newsletter and there are a number of important university and SC&I news items to share.
Mary Chayko Reappointed Honors College Faculty Fellow in Residence for 2020-2021,
A SC&I research team led by Assistant Professor Sunyoung Kim is working with the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey to develop a patient portal for leukemia patients. The system will enable clinicians to communicate treatment scenarios and outcomes to their patients in a less stressful way, and it will enable patients to investigate information about their illness autonomously.
Associate Professor Rebecca Reynolds has guest edited a freely available, open access special issue of the journal Information and Learning Sciences on emergency remote teaching transitions due to #COVID19. The articles contain detailed, research-supported strategies for educators in a range of contexts and domains (Higher Education, K-12, Librarianship, and across a range of subjects / learning scenarios).