Jorge Reina Schement was dean of what is now the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
[1] In 2013 he was named by Rutgers University President Robert Barchi as the Vice Chancellor of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion.
[2] Schement's research and scholarship address issues in the areas of information policy, global telecommunications, the social aspects of the Information Age, Spanish-language media, and information-consumer behavior.
[3] Schement serves as the editor-in-chief of the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Communication and Information, as well as an editorial board member of: IT & Society, Journal of Media and Religion, Information and Behavior, and Telematics and Informatics.
During his time at Southern Methodist University, he was Vice President of Sigma Iota Epsilon.