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This book fulfills a need for planning in higher education due to the impending impact of ten twenty-first century technologies: 3D printing, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, bitcoin/blockchain, genome development: agricultural, genome: medical, internet of things, nanotechnology, personal robots, and quantum computing.
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Toboggan Theory
Chapter 2. Higher Education at the Precipice
Chapter 3. Technological Impact on Higher Education
Chapter 4. Mission and Vision
Chapter 5. ARPAC: A Strategic Planning Process
Chapter 6.ARPAC Step 1: Awareness
Chapter 7.ARPAC Step 2: Research
Chapter 8.ARPAC Step 3: Planning
Chapter 9.ARPAC Step 4: Action
Chapter 10.ARPAC Step 5: Caring
Chapter 11. Toward A Successful Future
Epilogue
Appendix
References
About the Author
About the author
Darrel W. Staat is past president of two community colleges in Maine (founding president of one) and one community college in Virginia. He also served as president of the South Carolina Technical College System. He is now professor and coordinator of the EdD Higher Education Executive Leadership Program at Wingate University in North Carolina.
Summary
This book fulfills a need for planning in higher education due to the impending impact of ten twenty-first century technologies: 3D printing, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, bitcoin/blockchain, genome development: agricultural, genome: medical, internet of things, nanotechnology, personal robots, and quantum computing.
