Information Strategy and Management Concentration

The Career You Want. The Skills You Need.

Information is essential to every public program and policy initiative. The courses in this concentration prepare students to understand and use information as an essential tool for problem solving and public management within single organizations and across multiple organizations, sectors, and levels of government. Drawing from public administration and other fields, students learn how policies, organizational factors, information content, and
information technologies influence decisions and performance.

Study Under Distinguished Faculty Experts

Sharon Dawes	Theresa Pardo

• PAD 550 Foundations of Government Information Strategy and Management
• PAD 650 Building a Case for IT Investments in the Public Sector
• PAD 577 Information Technology, Globalization and Global Governance
• PAD 611 Decision Making in Government and Administration
• PAD 615 Strategic Planning and Management

Other Specialty Courses Available Across the University

• IST 560 Information and Public Policy
• COM 659 Technology and Contemporary Organizational Life
• INF 523 Fundamentals of Information Technology

• US Government Accountability Office
• US Veterans Administration
• NYS Division of the Budget
• NYS Governor's Office of Employee Relations
• Office of the NYS Comptroller, Division of Municipal Affairs (Office of the NYS Comptroller, Division of Municipal Affairs)
• City of Schenectady