Overview
Jean-Pierre Fortin is the business manager for the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He participates in the development, implementation and maintenance of policies, objectives and short and long-range strategic planning in the college. Jean-Pierre is the point of contact for department budget and/or administrative operations training, and he ensures adherence to both policies and regulations are followed.
Jean-Pierre holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and a Master of Business Administration, both from Wichita State University. He is now pursuing a doctorate in educational psychology at Wichita State. He has a background in data analytics, project management, and business intelligence with interests in machine learning, artificial intelligence, education and metacognition.
Originally from the popular tourist destination, Curacao, Jean-Pierre lived most of his life in the Caribbean until he moved to the United States in 2014 to begin his education. Now, he studies motivation factors within play, particularly video game genres, and how they can be used within the education industry to promote motivation, material retention (facilitate schema/coding through the teaching environment), and teacher/student collaboration within the classroom.