About the iSchools
Our Mission
Deans from a number of leading iSchools have joined together to leverage the power of leading iSchools in building awareness of, support for and involvement with the iField among key constituencies, principally the media, business community, those who fund research, student prospects, and users of information.
Who are the iSchools?
Find descriptions of individual iSchools
What's the iSchool Caucus?
The original impetus for organizing and publicizing the iSchools came from a group of schools now called the iCaucus.See the charter for more information.
Our History
Read more about the beginnings of the iSchools Caucus.
Joining the iSchools
The iSchools take it as given that expertise in all forms of information is required for progress in science, business, education, and culture. This expertise must include understanding of the uses and users of information, the nature of information itself, as well as information technologies and their applications. The iSchools have organized under these guidelines to pursue common objectives with a collective commitment of resources.
Criteria for being recognized as an iSchool are not rigid, but schools are expected to have substantial sponsored research activity (an average of $1 million in research expenditures per year over three years), engagement in the training of future researchers (usually through an active, research-oriented doctoral program), and a commitment to progress in the information field.
To join the iSchools, please send an email to attesting that your school shares the purpose and providing evidence that your school meets the baseline characteristics described above, and your school will be listed on ischools.org as an iSchool. You will also be assessed a modest annual administrative fee (currently $500). Once that fee is paid, you may contribute to ischools.org brief descriptions of your students, faculty, research, and academic programs, for the various parts of the web site, and you may tag RSS-based news items to be picked up by the ischools.org newsfeed aggregator.
2008-2009 iCaucus Membership Committee
- Dean, College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University.
- Dean, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine.
- Dean, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley.
iCaucus Steering Committee
- Coordinator 2008-2010: Dean, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
- Treasurer: Dean, College of Information, Florida State University.
- Coordinator elect: Dean, Information School, University of Washington (iSchools coordinator-elect, 2010-2012).