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FREE Money Skills Webinar

Lisa Currie — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:55:55 +0000

Your Money, Your Life: Smart Money Skills for College and Beyond

Friday, April 24, 2009

1:00-2:00 EDT

on your computer

Overview
Every college student wants to become financially independent, but often don’t know where to begin. This webinar will guide attendees through 5 essential money management skills necessary to take a more active role in managing their finances. In addition, the webinar will address the current economic situation and the implications it will have on current college students and new graduates.

Objectives
Program participants will:

Explore the five essential money management skills every student should possess
Learn how to integrate these skills into daily routines
Understand how the national economic slowdown will affect personal finance and life decisions

Who Should Attend?
Students – all majors, all classifications

Who is the Speaker?
Danielle Champagne is the Assistant Director of the Student Money Management Center at the University of North Texas. She currently oversees the Financial Success Programs that provide individual student financial consultations and the assessment creation and planning for the Center. Her educational background includes finance, economics, and student affairs and college administration. She is currently working on an MBA in Strategic Management at UNT. Her current research interests include first-generation and minority college student recruitment and retention, assessment of student learning and outcomes, and the impact of debt on college students and recent graduates.

Registration Information

To register for this event visit http://www.weeklyinnovations.org/profiles/blogs/your-money-your-life-smart to get the coupon code, add this product to your cart and apply the coupon code.

You can register at anytime. There is no cost.

How to avoid costly financial mistakes while still in college

Lisa Currie — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:34:53 +0000

You might be wondering…what does money have to do with health and well-being? Everything! Financial woes can be a major source of stress throughout our lives if we let them be. We have a choice in the matter since how we spend and save our money is completely within our control. Learning how to manage your money early can help prevent boatloads of stress both in the short and long term. And whether you have oodles of cash available or precious little money in pocket each week, the same principles apply.

Trent over at The Simple Dollar, a terrific personal finance blog, has written up the seven financial mistakes to avoid during your college career. While not all may apply to you, striving to avoid as many as possible will help with your long term financial health and reduce (but probably not completely eliminate) your stress about money while still here at Wesleyan and when transitioning to the post-Wes world.

Check out the article here.

Video: College students sinking in credit card debt

Lisa Currie — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:43:14 +0000

or view it here.

Discussion: What concerns do you have about credit cards? What have you learned from your own mistakes? What plan do you have to eliminate (or not create) your debt load?

Yes, Money Can Buy Happiness…

Lisa Currie — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:46:55 +0000

. . . but probably not in the way you imagined. Spending it on yourself may not do much for your spirits, but spending it on others will make you happier, according to a report from a team of social psychologists in the new issue of Science.

The researchers confirmed the joys of giving in three separate ways. First, by surveying a national sample of more than 600 Americans, they found that spending more on gifts and charity correlated with greater happiness, whereas spending more money on oneself did not. Second, by tracking 16 workers before and after they received profit-sharing bonuses, the researchers found that that the workers who gave more of the money to others ended up happier than the ones who spent more of it on themselves. In fact, how the bonus was spent was a better predictor of happiness than the size of the bonus.

The final bit of evidence came from an experiment in which 46 students were given either $5 or $20 to spend by the end of the day. The ones who were instructed to spend the money on others — they bought toys for siblings, treated friends to meals and made donations to the homeless — were happier at the end of the day than the ones who were instructed to spend the money on themselves.

read full New York Times TierneyLab article…