Financial Literacy Education ─ Addressing Student, Business, and Government Needs

According to a Money Matters report, financial literacy education in high school greatly influences students’ attitude about money management for life. It also found that first-year college students who took a financial literacy course are more likely to be financially responsible. In this age of crushing college debt, we should be requiring education in financial literacy to all students. In recognizing this dilemma Dr. Jay Liebowitz, through the DiSanto Visiting Chair in Applied Business and Finance, Harrisburg University of Science

Dr. Jay Liebowitz is the DiSanto Visiting Chair in Applied Business and Finance at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. He previously was the Orkand Endowed Chair of Management and Technology in the Graduate School at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC). He served as a Professor in the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University. He was ranked one of the top 10 knowledge management researchers/practitioners out of 11,000 worldwide, and was ranked #2 in KM Strategy worldwide according to the January 2010 Journal of Knowledge Management. At Johns Hopkins University, he was the founding Program Director for the Graduate Certificate in Competitive Intelligence and the Capstone Director of the MS-Information and Telecommunications Systems for Business Program, where he engaged over 30 organizations in industry, government, and not-for-profits in capstone projects.