Today SC&I faculty members GoUn Kim and Lilia Pavlovsky have received promotions, effective July 1, 2023.

“I am delighted to share with you that two of our LIS colleagues have just been notified on their successful promotions,” said Interim Dean Dafna Lemish. “Please join me in congratulating Lilia and GoUn for these much-deserved promotions! Great to have them as part of our community!”

Kim has been promoted from Teaching Instructor of Library and Information Science to Assistant Teaching Professor.

Pavlovsky has been promoted from Associate Teaching Professor of Library and Information Science to Teaching Professor (full professor).

Kim, Ph.D.’16, MLIS’05, teaches courses in "Application of Research in Information Technology," "Social Informatics," and "Retrieving and Evaluating Electronic Information." Her research focuses on advancing knowledge of how information and digital literacy may define what it means to be an educated person in a digital multimedia era, and to contribute to developing and supporting our society through scholarly communication of this knowledge. In 2020, SC&I awarded Kim a Library and Information Science Faculty Teaching Award, and in 2016 Kim was awarded a Ph.D. Program Scholarship Award from SC&I. 

Pavlovsky holds a doctorate from SC&I. The Director of the Master of Information Program at SC&I, she has developed and taught the online courses "Competitive Intelligence;" "Management;" "Human Information Behavior;" "Social Informatics;" and "Searching." Her applied research focuses on competitive intelligence for program change and development and understanding how people think, learn, communicate, and seek information in technologically mediated contexts. She examines how people negotiate and make sense of space, content, and resources in unfamiliar virtual learning environments. Results of her work have led to improvements in pedagogy; information system design; data management; effective application of emerging technologies; program design, collaborative work practices and tools; and organizational change management. Her current projects include curricular reorganization and program development.

More information about the Rutgers School of Communication and Information is on the website.