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As students access an ever-expanding array of personal finance information sources, faculty are working harder than ever to help them make informed money choices. Join the author team behind Focus on Personal Finance, Jack Kapoor, Les Dlabay, Bob Hughes, and Melissa Hart, for a practical session on using AI and technology to teach today's most pressing personal finance topics.
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Walk away with classroom-ready strategies to help your students build financial literacy for the world they're actually navigating today.
Jack Kapoor has been a professor of business and economics in the Business and Technology Division of the College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, where he taught Personal Finance, Introduction to Business, Marketing, Management, and Economics for more than 40 years. Professor Kapoor is a recipient of the Business and Technology Division’s Outstanding Professor Award. He received his BA and MS from San Francisco State College and his EdD in Business and Economic Education from Northern Illinois University. He previously taught at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Stuart School of Management, San Francisco State University’s School of World Business, and other colleges. He served as an assistant national bank examiner for the U.S. Treasury Department and has been an international trade consultant to Bolting Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Mumbai, India.
“Learning for a life worth living” is the teaching emphasis of Les Dlabay, Professor of Business Emeritus, who taught at Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois, for 35 years. To prepare students for diverse economic settings, he emphasizes field research projects and interactive learning. Dr. Dlabay has coauthored or has adaptations of more than 50 textbooks in the United States, Canada, India, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia. During his career, he taught 30 different courses and presented over 300 workshops and seminars. His research emphasis involves informal and alternative financial services in cross-cultural and global settings. Professor Dlabay has a BS (Accounting) from the University of Illinois, Chicago; an MBA from DePaul University; and an EdD from Northern Illinois University. He received The Great Teacher Award at Lake Forest College three times.
Dr. Hughes has taught personal finance, introduction to business, business math, small business management, small business finance, and accounting for over 35 years. In addition to Focus on Personal Finance and Personal Finance, published by McGraw Hill, he has authored college textbooks for Introduction to Business, Business Mathematics, and Small Business Management. He also served as a content consultant for two popular national television series, Dollars & Sense: Personal Finance for the 21st Century and It’s Strictly Business, and he was the lead author for a project combining artificial intelligence and instruction for business math that was funded by the ALEKS® Corporation.
Melissa Hart is a Clinical Associate Professor at Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She teaches courses in personal and corporate finance. She is a member of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers. She has been nominated for the Gertrude Cox Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching with Technology for developing unique approaches to introduce technology into the classroom. Spreading the word about financial literacy has always been a passion of hers. It doesn’t stop at the classroom. Each year she shares her commonsense approach of “No plan is a plan” to various student groups, clubs, high schools, and other organizations. She is a member of the North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants. She received her BBA from the University of Maryland and an MBA from North Carolina State University. Prior to obtaining an MBA, she worked eight years in public accounting in audit, tax compliance, and consulting.