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Shirley Staples Carter

A Journey of Leadership and Service

Shirley Staples Carter Reflections

We prepare you for careers in the use of information for all audiences and across all media and formats. At undergraduate and graduate degree levels, we are all about information collection, dissemination and preservation in the 21st century digital world.

Pathways to your future

Our students have a passion for stories. Some of them find them by combing through data and providing companies with insights into organizational goals. Others venture into communities, reporting on trends and the news of the day. This is our story.

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CIC News

We create news — research it, write it, film it, share it. But we also make it. Explore what our faculty, students and alumni are up to — winning awards, studying new trends, changing the world.
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School of Information Science

The school is a community of students, scholars, staff and alumni dedicated to improving society through the transformation of data into information and information into knowledge.

About the iSchool
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School of Journalism and Mass Communications

We teach communication — all types — from time-tested techniques to the unbounded possibilities of digital media. We’re visual and textual, informative and persuasive, for undergraduate and graduate students.

About the J-school
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Information and Communication Studies

Programs of study in this unit explore how people create, share and interpret information across cultures, media and contexts. Students dive into topics from interpersonal and intercultural communication to persuasion, data storytelling, digital media and the influence of mass media — gaining the skills to think critically, communicate effectively and thrive in today’s information-driven world.

majors and degrees
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Who We Are

The College of Information and Communications is home to more than 140 faculty and staff, 2243 undergraduate students and 668 graduate students. Explore who we are and what we do.

Engagement Opportunities

Once students, now alumni. Once mentees, now mentors. Once scholarship recipients. Now scholarship donors. See what "Forever to Thee" looks like.