Personal Finance 101 - Workshop Descriptions
Workshop Title |
Workshop Description |
Show Me The Money! |
This workshop occurs near the start of Fall and Winter Terms, and focuses on ensuring completion of all financial aid packages, researching scholarships, grant aid, and creating an organized method of applying and tracking scholarship applications. |
Would You Rather Make $250/HR or $10/HR? - Applying for Scholarships |
This workshop occurs in Fall and Spring Terms, and focuses on the completion of actual scholarship applications, including receipt of letters of recommendation, writing an effective personal statement, and monitoring the entire application process to meet all submission deadlines. |
OK, Now What Do I Do With the Money? |
This workshop is split into two sessions and occurs in both Fall and Spring Terms. These workshops focus on electronic budgeting tools to help track income, monitor expenditures, and identify potential mismanagement of available funds. These will be hands-on, practical workshops where you will be required to bring any monthly income statements, as well as receipts from the past month's expenditures. |
I Owe How Much?!?! - Monitoring and Managing Debt |
This workshop occurs in Fall and Spring Terms, and focuses on personal budgeting, and effective decision-making practices to prevent fiscal crises and reduce your debt load as much as possible. |
So Now What? - Personal Finance For Graduating Students |
This workshop is specifically geared towards students graduating at the end of the term, is offered at the end of Spring Term, and focuses on planning for loan repayments, promoting financial responsibility, and ensuring stability as you transition from an undergraduate student to either a career or graduate school. |
