Earn a Ph.D. in Information Studies – Open House March 18

Brookville, N.Y. - Holding a Ph.D. can vastly increase one’s career options and earning potential. But for many professionals, the biggest obstacle to earning a doctorate is finding the time for classes.

The College of Information and Computer Science at C.W. Post offers courses for the Ph.D. primarily in the evenings and on weekends to fit into busy lifestyles. Through these convenient courses, students acquire knowledge and conduct research in today’s critical areas of information organization, retrieval, management and policy.

Taught by faculty of the College’s prestigious Palmer School of Library and Information Science, the doctorate in Information Studies – the only one of its kind in the New York metropolitan area – prepares individuals to assume leadership positions in research, teaching and in practice. Graduates of the program will be equipped to fill a documented need for researchers and faculty members in the broad field of information studies.

The Palmer School will hold an open house for prospective Ph.D. students on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in Room 330 of the B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library at C.W. Post. Faculty and advisers will be on hand to explain degree requirements and course schedules. The event is free and open to the public.

The Ph.D. in Information Studies utilizes a strong interdisciplinary approach because solutions to the problems of organizing, storing and retrieving vast amounts of information require the combined knowledge of computer scientists, management specialists, educators, psychologists, librarians and others. This program offers three main areas of study - knowledge organization and access, information studies and services, and human-computer interaction - and is structured to accommodate part-time students who are already working in the information field or in related professions. During the first-year of the program, courses are held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6 to 9 p.m.

The Palmer School encourages applications from minority groups and is committed to equal-opportunity acceptance of candidates into the program in order to offset the shortage of minorities in the information professions. Applicants must hold a master's degree in any discipline. The Palmer School of Library and Information Science is a division of C.W. Post’s College of Information and Computer Science.

The C.W. Post Campus is located at 720 Northern Blvd. (Route 25A), Brookville, NY. For additional information contact Michael.Koenig@liu.edu or 516-299-3444 or 516-299-2176.

Posted: February 17, 2009