| School of Information Studies (SOIS) | |
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| Motto | Information our focus, International our scope, Interdisciplinary our mindset. |
| Interim Dean | Dr. Dietmar Wolfram |
| Undergraduates | 190 |
| Postgraduates | 561 |
| Doctoral students | 21 |
| Location | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States |
| Campus | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| Former names | School of Library and Information Studies |
| Website | http://www.sois.uwm.edu/ |
The School of Information Studies (SOIS) is an academic unit of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. The school offers Bachelor of Science, MLIS and Doctoral programs of Information sciences in the areas of Archival Studies, Information Organization, Information Policy, and Information Retrieval.
The US News & World Report ranks the school 16th nationally and its Archives and Preservation program the 9th nation wide. [1] The school was recognized by UNESCO as one of the "leading international academic institutions" for its "ongoing role in promoting e-government and information ethics initiatives in Africa" in 2009.[2][3]
The school houses UW-Milwaukee's Center for Information Policy Research, and has its own technological support staff (SOIS Tech) that is separate from University Information Technology Services (UITS).
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