The College of Information and Communications advances the excellence of research scholarship and creative activity by encouraging new research from individual faculty as well as in more formal academic opportunities.
The college sponsors a research symposium to highlight the latest diversity-related research from CIC faculty. The symposium was created to build awareness of the diversity research being done by the CIC’s faculty and spotlight research collaborations between the college’s two schools.
The School of Information Science at the University of South Carolina has established a laboratory to conduct research, provide resources, and plan programming related to protecting access to information people need. Areas and issues of interest include universal access and universal design, access for people with different abilities and the digital divide
The biennial event welcomes scholars from various disciplines and approaches that address the vital relationships between civil rights and public communication from local/national/transnational contexts, perspectives and periods. The symposium, which concludes with the Farrar Award in Media & Civil Rights History, takes place in conjunction with the AEJMC Southeast Colloquium.