Empowerful Informatics: Optimizing Higher Learning and Maximizing Investment in Today's Economy

SHRINK-WRAPPED NEW: Empowerful Informatics: Optimizing Higher Learning and Maximizing Investment.2015 PB Empowerful Informatics: Optimizing Higher Learning and Maximizing Investment in Today's Economy Paperback March 17, 2015 by Joseph Martin Stevenson (Author), Alfredda H. Payne (Author), Johnny D. Jones (Author) OUR REFERENCE: oK-SFK3-BCA2-PB-1680530038-6-OZ-ORNG DESCRIPTION How many times have you heard a potential college bound student say, Sure, I want to go to college, but right now, I have to make a living for myself and help my family? Or, I want to go to college, but I don t know what I want to study. On one hand, I love to read and write about literature; on the other, I also like doing physical things outdoors with my hands. Or, I learn better in smaller classes and I would feel lost in a large classroom setting. Or, I love to help people at my church with repairing things, but I also want beyond my church one day to learn more about different cultures around the world. This scholarly driven, yet practical, book is pointedly and purposefully titled, EMPOWERFUL INFORMATICS, to help students, parents, families, communities, and institutions of higher learning find the balance for personal empowerment, academic enlightenment, and economic efficiency. The authors have found that, too frequently, many families have misconceptions about the benefits of and the return on an investment in higher education. From the authors collective experiences, too often, families perceive higher learning based on inaccurate data, incomplete data, no data or information about options not far from their homes, neighbourhoods, and communities. The phases and points of progress for EMPOWERFUL INFORMATICS are discussed in this guidebook through the eight points of futuring, philosophy, anticipation, goal-setting, measurement, renewal, resource alignment, and human purpose/circling back over three phases. The book is quite timely, given the national conversations and movement concerning the cutting back and the curtailment of federal financial support for lower income students many of whom are first generation higher education seekers. This book is intended to reach the potential student as an idealist and the pragmatist, the dreamer and the doer, the farmer and the philosopher; and the scientist and the artist. As authors with over three decades of experience in adult, continuing, lifelong, higher, and other postsecondary education, we asked ourselves four fundamental questions in preparing and finishing this very timely book in today s unpredictable, uncertain, unsure, and chaotic global economy. About the Author Joseph M. Stevenson is the founder of the Executive PhD Program. Dr. Stevenson graduated with a MS and PhD degree in Curriculum and Instructional Leadership (K-12), and Educational Policy & Management (Higher) from the University of Oregon. He is a graduate of the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University and the Superintendent s Academy at George Washington University. He holds two other master degrees in Social Science Education, (Government) Educational Administration (Higher) and a bachelor s degree in Government/Psychology from California State University, Sacramento (CSUS). He has completed executive and continuing education work at Vanderbilt University, Stanford University, Yale University, Carnegie Mellon University, New School of Social Research, and Tulane. He is considered one of America s few African American futurists. Dr. Stevenson has served in the many roles of university provost, CEO, COO, CAO, senior vice president, dean, eminent scholar/endowed chair, full professor, school superintendent of schools, subject matter expert, and Kellogg Leadership Fellow for the Office of the President at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Product details Publisher ‏ : ‎ Academica Press (March 17, 2015) Language ‏ : ‎ English Paperback ‏ : ‎ 110 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : &#8206.…